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Subject: Re: MEDM EPICS Win32 Extensions
From: "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]>
To: Richard Pastrick <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:48:34 -0500
On 1/22/09 6:20 PM, Richard Pastrick wrote:
> I have run into that before but that is not the problem. I have the
> mouse hovering over the text field in question and nothing is entered.
>
> I was reading up on a previous thread on tech talk where my exact
> problem was reported but the fix does not help my situation.
>
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2007/msg01116.php
>
> I also did a search to see if the issue was related specifically to
> cygwin and it appears to be so. I believe it has to do with the
> environment variable XKEYSYMDB. If it is set, I cannot use xterm or
> medm.
>
> Anyone have any other thoughts? This is a fresh install of cygwin and
> I copied the XKeySymDB file from this cygwin install to the epics dir
> and pointed the environment variable at that.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Richard

Hi, Richard.

Do you get any error messages?  Do you have a .xsession-errors file in
your home directory with anything relevant in it?

Another possibility might be to try Xming to see if that makes a
difference:

  http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

Lewis

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