Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Maarten Vanneste wrote:
> 
>> I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens
>> fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly
>> impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot
>> type into the editor, same for emacs.
> 
> The problem where the keyboard doesn't appear to work may be caused if you
> have XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB environment variable.  The
> startxwin.bat batch file should have been updated to remove this by the
> upgrade, but if you have a different way of starting the server it may still
> be in your environment. If it is, remove it :-)

But rather than relying on my wild guesses, it might be better if you posted
your /tmp/Xwin.log to see if that says anything useful...

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ:                   http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/