can't start xterm

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Jeffrey A Delinck wrote:
> I did one thing to my startxwin.bat file to make it work. I commented out 
> the "set" commands thus:
> 
> rem SET XAPPLRESDIR=
> rem SET XCMSDB=
> rem SET XKEYSYMDB=
> rem SET XNLSPATH=
> 
> I am not sure if this is what really made it work because it didn't work 
> with the startxwin.sh command, either. However, it might be related to a 
> residual of these being defined

Known issue.  See the FAQ entry:

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


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