All text being echoed in Xterms

Steven T. Zydek szydek@uiuc.edu
Mon Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2002


Hi There,

I'm a newbie to Cygwin/XFree. I just installed Cygwin 1.3.7/Xfree v4.2 on my 
sunpci card (basically, an Intel-based motherboard w/AMD processor running in 
a Sun box) running WinNT 4.0. All the software has installed perfectly. I can 
start up bash shells within Cygwin just fine, X starts up without any error 
messages (using the default startx scripts) and xterms/xclock appear fine.

My trouble is that anytime I try to type (enter commands) in an xterm, 
all text gets echoed twice. So, if I type: 'ls -al[ENTER]' , I get the 
following spewed back:

llss  --aall [CR]
[CR]
me@machine bash>


me@machine bash>

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I tried to determine whether it's Xwin or the xterm. (NOTE: the Cygwin shells
do NOT have this problem). From what I can tell it is Xwin causing the problem. 
I was able to display a remote xterm window from a Sun box and had the same 
trouble where everything was echoed. I checked newsgroups, faqs, web, etc. and
no luck. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help you could provide!

Thanks,
+Steve



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