ISO: steps to start Windows PuTTY while using Cygwin/X x authentication

2012-05-29 Thread Larry W. Virden
Platform is Windows 7 64 bit, using cygwin/x 1.11.1-1 and started with: /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error -auth /home/user/.Xauthority -auth /home/user/.serverauth.780 Once this starts up, the user is able to start mintty, xterm, etc, can start ssh -Y otherserver and have x

Problem with basic startx and xterm - no cursor or focus

2012-05-29 Thread Patrick Hogan
Hi list, A slightly more pared-down version of a question I've posed previously. From a new Cygwin install on Windows 7 running 1024x768 resolution, compare the result of the following two commands run from a Cygwin terminal: startx /usr/bin/xterm -- -logfile broken.log startx /usr/bin/xterm

RE: Problem with basic startx and xterm - no cursor or focus

2012-05-29 Thread Senseney, Justin (NIH/CIT) [E]
This seems to be a fairly fundamental problem, and the placement of the xterm determines whether the entire X.org session is usable or not. Does anyone know anything about this problem? I will only mention that while I am unable to recover from this same problem (rebase/reinstalling/different