Failed to open input method

[Thomas Chadwick]

You know, after sending this reply I actually went and read the FAQ I was 
pointing you to.  It looks to be quite out of date in that it refers to the 
Xinstall.sh script, which is not how XFree86 is installed any more.

What you need to do is run the Cygwin Setup program, and on the 3rd screen, 
there is a pair of radio buttons under the label "Default Text File Type".  
Make sure "Unix" is picked, not "DOS".

>From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, vervoom@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Failed to open input method
>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:44:35 -0500
>
>The "Could not init font path ..." error is in the FAQ:
>
>http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-removing-font-path-element
>
>Don't know if the "Xlib locale" business is a side-effect of the font 
>problem, or something else.
>
>
>>From: "J S" <vervoom@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Failed to open input method
>>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:57:18 +0000
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Could anyone help me with this problem please? I keep getting the 
>>following messages after upgrading XFree86:
>>
>>$ xterm
>>Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
>>Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
>>Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
>>Failed to open input method
>>
>>The Xwin.log says:
>>
>>winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 
>>bpp 24
>>winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
>>winScreenInit - returning
>>(EE) No primary keyboard configured
>>(==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
>>Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options 
>>= "(n
>>ull)"
>>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, 
>>removing from
>>list!
>>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing 
>>from
>>list!
>>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, 
>>removing from
>>list!
>>
>>I have the following entries in my .inputrc file in my home directory to 
>>enable UK keyboards:
>>
>>set meta-flag on
>>set convert-meta off
>>set output-meta on
>>
>>but the pound sign doesn't print anything now as well. I presume that's 
>>related to this problem.
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>
>>JS.
>>
>>
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