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Re: [PATCH] xinit: avoid some 'keyboard not working' cases
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:47:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] xinit: avoid some 'keyboard not working' cases
- References: <4964E5C6.9060109@dronecode.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Attached is a patch against the xinit package in cygports svn:
>
> * In an attempt to avoid some instances of the ever popular "I upgraded
> X and now my keyboard doesn't work" problem, update the X server
> starting sample scripts to actively unset XKEYSYMDB etc., environment
> variables, rather than assuming they are empty.
>
> Also:
>
> * Use 'run' in the shortcut to run startxwin.bat, to avoid a console
> window flashing up, as suggested by Angelo Graziosi in [1]
>
> * Point to 'man XWin' rather than summarizing all the XWin specific
> command line options here, reducing the number of places in which this
> information is kept, in preparation for when I get around to updating it...
Thanks; patches in SVN, and will be part of xinit-1.1.1-1.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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