Alex/Stan, Thank you. The ugly hack works! The other did not. Now that my keyboard mapping is less of an issue does anyone have any further ideas on the Gnome menu? Installing additional items aren't added to the Gnome menu bars. I seem to be missing a few that I have had in previous versions of Fink as well as on Ubuntu etc...
Andrew. On 14 Feb 2009, at 13:52, Stan Sanderson wrote: > > 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
