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RE: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter
- From: "Bennett, Tony" <Bennett dot Tony at con-way dot com>
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:13:16 -0800
- Subject: RE: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter
- References: <9E085D377965634187A85638358AE611012DD82B45@DCXPRCL017.cnf.prod.cnf.com> <4B969452.6070807@dronecode.org.uk>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:33 AM
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Cc: Bennett, Tony
>Subject: Re: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter
>
>>On 07/01/2010 05:13, Bennett, Tony wrote:
>> I a using Xwin to connect to an AIX system using XDMCP.
>>
>> This was working fine on an old version of Xwin,
>> As long as I used the "-kb" command line argument
>> (there was an old post in the FAQ, suggesting that parameter
>> As the workaround for AIX not handling "keyboard extensions").
>>
>> I just downloaded 1.7.3.0 on another Win-XP system, and discovered
>> That -kb is no longer supported. Without that argument, I am able
>> To successfully connect using XDMCP, but after opening my 2nd
>> Xterm, the window "freezes" up... neither mouse or keyboard
>> Seems to function with it (which was the same symptom I had on
>> The old version prior to adding the "-kb" startup parm.
>>
>Thanks for pointing out the FAQ 5.1.5 is out of date, I'll fix that.
>
>The Xming troubleshooting page has some more up-to-date advice [1],
>but I can't personally check that.
>
>[1] http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/trouble.php#head-142
Jon,
Yes I saw that posting in XmingNotes.
Since the config files in question impact ALL users of the AIX host,
I can't modify them.
However, I am able to successfully use Xming without modifying them.
I do have to turn on and off my NumLock key... but I can live with that.
I do NOT have the Freeze issue with Xming, that I do with Cygwin-X...
...However, I believe Xming is based upon an "earlier" version of X-Org:
Welcome to the Xming X Server
Vendor: Colin Harrison
Release: 6.9.0.31
The Xming website says this version was released: 4 May 2007
Lets hope that there's an upstream fix to the problem, so that I can
go back to using Cygwin-X exclusively.
-tony
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