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RE: XWin cant lock the screen
- To: "Alexander Gottwald" <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: XWin cant lock the screen
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:42:21 -0400
Try Harold suggestions from previous mail.
Thanks
Suhaib
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > finally I got XWin to start, but not for long. Soon after the start
> > I can see the X-Background (this gray pattern), see the pointer and
> > get the Rectangle for placing xterm, but the screen is not locked by
> > X. Every click i passed to the underlying Windows program (the desktop)
> > If any other application draws to the screen, I can see this output on
> > the XBackground. Even Keypresses are not noticed by X but by the windows
> > program.
>
> after startup with -screen 0 1280x1024x16 X now comes up with the error
> message "Acquire Keyboard Error = 80070005 (DIERR_OTHERAPPHASPRIO).
> After clicking the message away sometimes the XServer can now lock (It
> seems, that if after clicking the message away the focus returns
> to another
> window, the XServer cant't lock again, and after some seconds, it
> is stable).
> So I have to try often to get a running X, (but then it works great)
>
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