[Xastir] Cygwin

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, vic wrote:

> I know this is off topic. but please bear with me for a minute...
> I recently updated my Cygwin installation.
> Now when I type "startx" to start an X11 session I do not get any
> kind of prompt in the resulting terminal window.  It's just blank, as in all
> white with no curser or other indication of a prompt.
>
> Anything I can fix??

So you have X11 running, you have an xterm window up, but you don't
see any text?  It could be a color problem if it's a color Xterm or
an Rxvt window.

You can try typing "rxvt &" in that window to see if a color RXVT
dialog might start (if rxvt was installed w/Cygwin).

Another thing to try is "xterm &" but passing it flags as well to
specify the foreground and background colors.  It looks like "-bg
<color>" changes the background, "-ms <color>" changes the pointer
cursor, and "-fg <color>" changes the foreground.  From "man xterm".

If color is the problem then investigate how to change the default
colors for the Xterm.  Probably with a "dot" file.

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