xterm: buttons work but cannot type text at the prompt

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Dec 8 21:37:00 GMT 2008


Carl R. Crawford wrote:
> With the new release of X11, xterm comes up and its buttons work. However, I
> cannot type text at the prompt. I am running X11 w/o a window manager. A
> number of other applications that require text input also do not work. How
> do I get text input to work? 

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything

> When I try to bring up a window manager with startx, the manager comes up
> and then crashes. What's up?


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