xterm: buttons work but cannot type text at the prompt

[Carl R. Crawford]

thank you. i was using an old version of startxwin.bat. when i switched, i
can type!

thanks,

--carl 

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 3:36 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: xterm: buttons work but cannot type text at the prompt

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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