On Feb 14, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Andrew Choong wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Just installed Fink and then Gnome on Leopard. Everything seems to be >> working well-ish. Can't seem to get the right keyboard mapping. Is >> this a known problem? Doesn't seem to work no matter what I try >> (Changing the X11 preferences etc). Also, has anyone noticed the >> Gnome >> menu appears to be much less extensive than previous versions? I >> installed Gnucash (which again works fine as a standalone X11 app) >> but >> there is no corresponding entry in the Gnome menu bar. Also, I can't >> seem to find my old .xinitrc file in /private/etc/X11... Am I being >> rubbish or has the configuration changed since the last version of >> Fink? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Andrew. >> > We didn't change the location of xinitrc. That's from Apple. If you > updated from Tiger to Leopard they probably erased it for you. That's > why it's better to use ~/.xinitrc instead, since neither Fink nor > Apple's OS installer modify the contents of your home directory. > > The keyboard mapping is a known issue: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.gnome/2167/match=keymap > > I can't personally speak to any of the other issues, since I don't use > the full desktop, but just applications. > Fink-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
My caveat to Alexander's answer about the keyboard mapping issue. I found that Martin Costabel's "ugly hack" mentioned in the article which he referenced is now the only working fix. I have had to apply reapply it when an update installs a new xmodmap. The first set of instructions provided in the article do not produce the actions described. The hack works however, but as mentioned might need to be reapplied. Stan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
