xterm no longer accepts keyboard input
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Mar 15 17:44:00 GMT 2010
On 15/03/2010 05:42, David Barr wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Spirko<spirko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The icon runs from the Windows environment, so the run.exe and
>> bash.exe wrapper programs are needed to set up the proper cygwin
>> environment. Once you're in a cygwin shell, you already have the
>> cygwin environment set up. That's why you don't need to type them in
>> from the command line.
>>
>> So, they really should be equivalent.
>
> I've probably missed a prior discussion, but if "startxwin.exe"
> doesn't set up the Cygwin environment, then what good is it? I thought
> that this was about the only advantage that "startxwin.bat" had over
> "startx".
No. startx and startxwin are different tools to solve different problems.
I keep adding more text to [1] to clarify this, but this doesn't appear to
help, perhaps because nobody actually reads it...
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
> Considering that "startx" also sets up the .Xauthority file
> and startxwin.exe doesn't, I see absolutely no reason to use
> startxwin.exe instead of startx.
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Jon TURNEY
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