nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Nov 12 14:47:00 GMT 2008


Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Maarten Vanneste wrote:
> 
>> I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens
>> fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly
>> impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot
>> type into the editor, same for emacs.
> 
> The problem where the keyboard doesn't appear to work may be caused if you
> have XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB environment variable.  The
> startxwin.bat batch file should have been updated to remove this by the
> upgrade, but if you have a different way of starting the server it may still
> be in your environment. If it is, remove it :-)

But rather than relying on my wild guesses, it might be better if you posted
your /tmp/Xwin.log to see if that says anything useful...

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