[PATCH] xinit: avoid some 'keyboard not working' cases

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jan 19 06:47:00 GMT 2009


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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Attached is a patch against the xinit package in cygports svn:
> 
> * In an attempt to avoid some instances of the ever popular "I upgraded
> X and now my keyboard doesn't work" problem, update the X server
> starting sample scripts to actively unset XKEYSYMDB etc., environment
> variables, rather than assuming they are empty.
> 
> Also:
> 
> * Use 'run' in the shortcut to run startxwin.bat, to avoid a console
> window flashing up, as suggested by Angelo Graziosi in [1]
> 
> * Point to 'man XWin' rather than summarizing all the XWin specific
> command line options here, reducing the number of places in which this
> information is kept, in preparation for when I get around to updating it...

Thanks; patches in SVN, and will be part of xinit-1.1.1-1.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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