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Re: All text being echoed in Xterms
- From: "Steven T. Zydek" <szydek at uiuc dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:16:11 -0600
- Subject: Re: All text being echoed in Xterms
- References: <20020130115220.C9338@uiuc.edu>
I posted this a little while back with no response. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
+Steve
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:52:20AM -0600, Steven T. Zydek wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I'm a newbie to Cygwin/XFree. I just installed Cygwin 1.3.7/Xfree v4.2 on my
> sunpci card (basically, an Intel-based motherboard w/AMD processor running in
> a Sun box) running WinNT 4.0. All the software has installed perfectly. I can
> start up bash shells within Cygwin just fine, X starts up without any error
> messages (using the default startx scripts) and xterms/xclock appear fine.
>
> My trouble is that anytime I try to type (enter commands) in an xterm,
> all text gets echoed twice. So, if I type: 'ls -al[ENTER]' , I get the
> following spewed back:
>
> llss --aall [CR]
> [CR]
> me@machine bash>
>
>
> me@machine bash>
>
> ---
> I tried to determine whether it's Xwin or the xterm. (NOTE: the Cygwin shells
> do NOT have this problem). From what I can tell it is Xwin causing the problem.
> I was able to display a remote xterm window from a Sun box and had the same
> trouble where everything was echoed. I checked newsgroups, faqs, web, etc. and
> no luck. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for any help you could provide!
>
> Thanks,
> +Steve
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Steven Zydek
EWS System Manager / CCSO
University of Illinois
217-244-7468 - szydek@uiuc.edu