Re: problems...

["Howard Tan" <Howard dot L dot Tan at jpl dot nasa dot gov>]

James,

I've had the same problem. The only way I got things to work was if I used
xfce interface in the contrib directory. That one works right out of the
box. I've even tried the X-servers-v-1.0 and couldn't get that one to work
either.

Howard


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Shuttleworth" <csx239@coventry.ac.uk>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:00 AM
Subject: problems...


> Hi,
> I've just downloaded and installed cygwin and X and the vtwm window
> manager. Everything went fine (which was a real surprise) until I tried to
> start the manager. I used the startxwin.bat file to start it (no
> modifications). My problem is this: when I try to type anything into the
> xterm, it disappears (the xterm, that is). I also have error messages in
> my shell complaining about "failed to open input method" and "locale not
> supported by C library, locale unchanged". I assume that the problem lies
> with the input (from my keyboard), but I haven't got a clue about
resolving
> it.
> Please help!
> Thanks,
>
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> James Shuttleworth
> Coventry University, school of MIS
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