> Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:08:48 +0100 (CET) > From: "dick hoogendijk" <dick at nagual.nl> > Subject: [desktop-discuss] SFEwindowmaker-0.92.0.spec extra info) > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Message-ID: <36878.192.168.11.22.1199729328.squirrel at nagual.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Kind of followup on my own msg: I installed the packages and ignored the > attribute changes. That seemed safe enough. Wwindowmaker works fine, but I > stopped using it again already, because of those AWFUL screen msgs about > "English/Western Europe" underneath each screen. I thought only CDE > suffered from this ugly behaviour that can't be switched off. Never saw it > in Blastwave's KDE i.e. I wonder why it is needed to have this in > windowmaker. Can't this be compiled out somehow? > > I know I can login with a C locale in JDS, but the side effects for > working in xterms are not always desirable. Mutt i.e. does not display my > msgs OK after this C locale change. > > So, is this nagging warning / msg still needed? > Will it ever be removed or can it already be? > > -- > Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE > ++ http://lossehandjes.nl/ | Solaris 10 / Nevada
I had the same in the beginning, running OpenSolaris with a UTF-8 locale, which would have been nice, since I use quite a few languages on the same machine. In the end I had to switch to a C locale permanently, since these input method selector thingies screwed usage up completely and cause core dumps on quite some applications, including windowmaker itself. I never found a solution in order to have the system working in a UTF-8 locale. Using a C locale does cause headaches when trying to pass unicode data between certain apps. If anyone has suceeded in running a UTF-8 locale without those darn selector thingies, I'd be very much obliged to learn how they did it. I use yudit for typing unicode characters, but it'd be well nice to have the system treat them as such, and not as random binary garbage as the C locale does. Many thanks to anyone who can advise on how to get rid of these input method selector applets. -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org
