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Re: Recent upgrade of xfree-xserv: missing DLLs
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:56:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Recent upgrade of xfree-xserv: missing DLLs
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> > There is a new package, XFree86-lib-compat-4.3.0-1,
> > that contains the old DLLs for 4.2.0 X Clients.
>
> OK. XFree86-lib-compat-4.3.0-1 eventually reached a mirror near me, and I
> installed it. Things now work that for a brief period did not. However,
> after set DISPLAY followed by start XWin -multiwindow followed by run
> rxvt -e bash, I still find that
>
> pressing # gives \, pressing ~ gives |, pressing \ gives < and pressing
> | gives >
>
> whilst these keys work just fine in bash.
>
> I do not mean to download every agony on readers, and will continue to try
> to sort this. But is anybody experiencing similar recent anomalies, and are
> they indicative of something obvious?
>
> Fergus
Fergus,
Does the same problem occur when you run rxvt with DISPLAY unset? This
would help you figure out whether it's rxvt or X that's misbehaving.
Igor
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