You need to do a general update of Cygwin by rerunning Cygwin's setup.exe and letting it upgrade updated packages.
For example, the XFree86-xserv package is now at version 4.3.0-50; you have version 4.3.0-20 installed. Let me just say that *substantial* changes in functionality have been made in those last 30 releases.
If you still have the same problems after upgrading, feel free to reask your questions.
Harold
Peter Wisnovsky wrote:
I'm using the XFree86 stuff to run my bash shells on cygwin and am using the following to start my X session.
xinit -- Xwin -clipboard -multiwindow &
[I've tried various combinations of -multiwindow and -rootless]
In multiwindow mode xterms only seem to have keyboard focus if the mouse is in the xterm window. Is there any way to configure it so that the xterm has keyboard focus if its in front? It seems to pick up a few characters after the mouse leaves, but then stops.
Also...the -clipboard setting doesn't have any discernable effect. I put this in based on
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure-cygwin-xfree-options.html
but I have to use the standalone Xwinclip. I'm running
% cygcheck -c | grep XFree XFree86-base 4.3.0-1 OK XFree86-bin 4.3.0-5 OK XFree86-etc 4.3.0-3 OK XFree86-f100 4.2.0-3 OK XFree86-fenc 4.2.0-3 OK XFree86-fnts 4.2.0-3 OK XFree86-fscl 4.2.0-3 OK XFree86-fsrv 4.3.0-4 OK XFree86-lib 4.3.0-1 OK XFree86-lib-compat 4.3.0-1 OK XFree86-man 4.3.0-2 OK XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5 OK XFree86-xserv 4.3.0-20 OK XFree86-xwinclip 4.3.0-1 OK
I notice there is no reference to -clipboard in my XWin(1) manual page.
Peter