Cursor keys don't work in xterm

[Bill Rebey]

I have cygwin installed, and the cursor keys don't work in an xterm.  By
don't work I mean that they don't generate any bytes.  

To test this, I have a program that echoes keystroke data to the screen, so
for instance, it shows that [End] will generate esc[F, F1 generates
escOP, etc.  All is good there.  

The Up, Down, Left, and Right keys, however, generate nothing at all - as
though they were never pressed.  This is true of the Keypad  cursor keys
(which are the ones that I REALLY want to work), and for the inverted-T
cursor keys, which I don't care about).

xmodmap -px shows that the keys in question are defined as follows:

 97   0xff50 (Home)   
 98   0xff52 (Up)   
 99   0xff55 (Prior) 
100   0xff51 (Left)  
101   
102   0xff53 (Right)
103   0xff57 (End)  
104   0xff54 (Down)   

I can't figure out, though, where to define the escape sequences generated
by these keys.

Can anyone help me figure out how to define these keys? 

Even a pointer to some documentation to how the X keyboard system works
would do.  

A)  I can't figure out how to determine what 
keycodes are generated by a given key on 
the keyboard 
- is there a utility to do this?

B)  I can't figure how how to get from knowing 
a key's keycode, to producing an escape 
sequence when it's pressed.

Help is appreciated!



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Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

[Dan Moulding]

I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and
rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating
I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font
problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new* Cygwin/X
a couple of months ago, and previously resolved some of the seemingly
more common font problems (like boxes showing up in emacs).

This time, I was getting Unable to load any usable iso8859 font
errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I searched the FAQs and the
web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led to a solution. At
one point, while trying to fix the problem, I also got the could not
open default font 'fixed' error, but none of the solutions listed in
the FAQ were applicable (either the problem described was obviously
not a match, or the solution, like re-installing all fonts, had
already been tried).

As a last resort, I used the Cygwin setup log to figure out which
packages had been updated, and rolled them all back to the versions I
was previously using. Now my X applications are working fine again, so
something in one of the updated packages definitely triggered this
problem.

Incidentally, the only unusual messages in XWin.0.log were the typical
Could not init font path element warnings that I always get (for
/usr/share/fonts//TTF, /usr/share/fonts/OTF, and
/usr/share/fonts/Type1). Sorry, I failed to save a copy of the
XWin.0.log when I was having these problems. Although, I don't know if
it would have been any help, because the X server itself seemed to be
starting fine.

Here is the list of packages that I updated to this morning (taken
from the Cygwin setup log):

compface/compface-1.5.2-1.tar.bz2
libapr1/libapr1-1.3.3-3.tar.bz2
nas/libaudio2/libaudio2-1.9.1-2.tar.bz2
X11/freetype2/libfreetype-devel/libfreetype-devel-2.3.8-1.tar.bz2
X11/freetype2/libfreetype2-devel/libfreetype2-devel-2.3.8-1.tar.bz2
X11/freetype2/libfreetype26/libfreetype26-2.3.8-1.tar.bz2
X11/freetype2/libfreetype6/libfreetype6-2.3.8-1.tar.bz2
gmp/libgmp3/libgmp3-4.2.4-1.tar.bz2
X.Org/libX11/libX11-devel/libX11-devel-1.1.5-2.tar.bz2
X.Org/libX11/libX11_6/libX11_6-1.1.5-2.tar.bz2
util-linux/util-linux-2.14.1-1.tar.bz2
xemacs/xemacs-21.4.22-1.tar.bz2
xemacs/xemacs-emacs-common/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.22-1.tar.bz2
X.Org/xinit/xinit-1.1.1-1.tar.bz2
X.Org/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.5.3-5.tar.bz2
X11/xterm/xterm-238-1.tar.bz2
_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00796-1.tar.bz2

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Cursor keys don't work in xterm - FURTHER INFO

[Bill Rebey]

I forgot to mention in my previous message (same Subject line without  -
FURTHER INFO) that xev doesn't show any X events generated by the keys in
question, either.  (i.e., the cursor keys:  Up, Down, Left, Right).

Also, in case it provides any clues, note that Cygwin was working just fine
a few days ago, and the keys were all working correctly.  Something
happened (read: I inadvertently modified something) that caused the cursor
keys to quit working.

Help is appreciated.




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