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Re: X Window takes mouse input, but not keyboard
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:12:14 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: X Window takes mouse input, but not keyboard
- References: <52B8449DB994914BB0FC045F5486B3004F755A@usahm233.amer.corp.eds.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Wright, David L wrote:
> I am using cygwin/X and Putty to connect to various UNIX servers and am
> having a problem with keyboard input in certain X apps. I connect to an AIX
> server with Putty using ssh and I have cygwin's X server running in
> multiwindow mode. When I set my display and execute a command to start an
> XWindow on the AIX machine the window loads perfectly and the mouse works.
> However, when I try to enter text from the keyboard, nothing happens. The
> application I am trying to use is Legato backup software, specifically the
> nwadmin GUI interface. Is there some setting I am missing? I don't
> understand why it would take mouse input, but not keyboard.
Maybe disabling the XKB extension helps:
add -kb to the Xwin command line.
Another source of problems may be an enabled NumLock key.
bye
ago
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