Hi, newbie questions.. Trying to get started.

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Markebo" <andrew.markebo@telia.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 AM
Subject: Hi, newbie questions.. Trying to get started.


> Hello!
>
> I was thrilled when I stumbled over the cygwin xfree port, jumped up
> and down of happiness, the final proof of year2k compability :-)
>
> Ahh well, can it be a y2k problem I have? ;-)
>
> Fired it up, got my desktop, and xterm and rxvt started up.. weeh :-)
> I even can do ls and so on :-) but the colors are.. greenish, is it
> the settings in twm, or just some color misnomer..

You may be missing the rgb.txt file - again search the archives for a exact answer. It is available in the devel tarball.

>
> Now when alt-tabbing to windows, and alt-tabbing back, the keyboard
> doesn't work, neither does it register mouseclicks..

This is a problem with the directX using 'official' distribution. Try pressing a releasing ALT after you are back in the X window.
There is work underway to fix this.

Rob