Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

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

On 15/03/2010 05:42, David Barr wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Spirko<spirko@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > The icon runs from the Windows environment, so the run.exe and
> > bash.exe wrapper programs are needed to set up the proper cygwin
> > environment.  Once you're in a cygwin shell, you already have the
> > cygwin environment set up.  That's why you don't need to type them in
> > from the command line.
> >
> > So, they really should be equivalent.
>
> I've probably missed a prior discussion, but if "startxwin.exe"
> doesn't set up the Cygwin environment, then what good is it? I thought
> that this was about the only advantage that "startxwin.bat" had over
> "startx".

No.  startx and startxwin are different tools to solve different problems.

I keep adding more text to [1] to clarify this, but this doesn't appear to 
help, perhaps because nobody actually reads it...

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting

> Considering that "startx" also sets up the .Xauthority file
> and startxwin.exe doesn't, I see absolutely no reason to use
> startxwin.exe instead of startx.


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