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Re: Problem Starting X-Windows
Dean Tsai wrote:
> Thanks so much for your assistance... However it still didn't solve the
> problem :( I tried to spawn an instance of xterm via Programs > Cygwin-X >
> Xterm... didnt work. I edited my own .xinitrc in the home directory...
> didn't work. I reinstall X-startup-scripts-1.0.11-1 and Xterm... didn't
> work either.
>
> The good news is, I have ways around the problem now. I noticed that when
> my Win32 prompt stop scrolling a "sh.exe" process is taking 99% of my
> CPU processing. If I go ahead and kill that process... I got this display
> from the screen followed by an xterm window!!
>
> I did find something on Cygwin faq
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-xkb-not-working
> I will investigate into this a little more when I go home today.
>
> Hopefully this will solve my problem...
>
> Do you think it will?
I don't know. The problem is then somewhere in the startup and is caused by an
unknown keyboard layout?
> .......
>
> (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /tmp/server-0.xkm
> (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> (--) 3 mouse buttons found
Or is just a permission error? Try testing if you can create files in /tmp,
something like "touch /tmp/my-test" and see if the (empty) file was created.
--
René Berber
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