Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

[Brian Ford]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> Brian Ford wrote:
> > No, you don't need to.  Just Xwin.exe -nolisten local.
>
> Thank you. This worked just fine. I take the point about Google-ing - that's
> how I learned that diverting tmp/XWin.log might help. I didn't see the
> "-nolisten local" advice ...
>
I found both in the same message, although it is older than I stated:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00165.html

> Just one final question: when I get into rxvt after "XWin -nolisten
> local -multiwindow &", the keyboard suddenly becomes USA, whereas it is set
> (correctly) to UK otherwise, within bash, within rxvt and for that matter
> within Windows. In this case, when I exit rxvt back to bash, the UK keyboard
> is recovered.
>
I think the message listed above has another hint for you about this :).

> Does the "-nolisten local" switch impose some kind USA default, as it would
> indeed appear to do?
>
No, not related at all.

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Brian Ford
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