On Thursday 27 October 2005 20:56, Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> Alexander S. Usov wrote:
> > At the moment I am interested in changing default font directories, and
> > the only place I have found is
> > /usr/share/sax/api/data/StaticFontPathList, however I find myself a bit
> > reluctant to edit it, as it's supposed to be rpm-controlled and not
> > edited by hands.
>
> I'm not the final expert, but I guess you will need to do some changes
> by hand.
>
> Question is how often the changes need to be made and how big is the
> effort to maintain the whole story.
>
> I would do the following:
>
> - Change to "/etc/X11"
> - Save working "xorg.conf" to e.g. "xorg.conf-saxorg"
> - Edit "xorg.conf"
> - Save edited "xorg.conf" to e.g. "xorg.conf-mod"
>
> As soon as a new versions of related files of tools are applied you need
> to check if changes need to be transfered. But that should not happen to
> often ...
>
> Hand work, but should work. Of course you could do similar things with
> the "StaticFontPathList"
It's really pity. Maybe I should try to file a bug report on it?
> > BTW, I have noticed that sax doesn't recognizes my mouse correctly.
> > I have a synaptics touchpad built-in in the notebook and an external
> > wireless logitech, while sax detects 3 mouses, of which 2 are detected
> > incorrectly and without manual intervention I couldn't get a working
> > wheel.
>
> What is the output of the command "hwinfo --mouse" ? To compare it I
> included the output of this command issued on my notebook:
>
> ========== [output of "hwinfo --mouse"] ==========
>
> 18: USB 00.0: 10503 USB Mouse
I have a similar output here, just that model/device fields contain
USB RECEIVER instead of mouse, and some crazy info is filled in
"Driver Info", like 8 buttons and 2 wheels :)
> 25: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse
This one is the same.
> ========== [/output of "hwinfo --mouse"] ==========
>
> I don't know if it helps, but here is the configuration of my notebook
> (external USB mouse [non-wireless / non-logitech] and Synaptics touchpad)
>
> ========== [extract of "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"] ==========
I have one more section. Strange point is that "explorerps/2" protocol doesn't
works for me correctly, and I had to correct it to "imps/2".
> ========== [/extract of "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"] ==========
>
> Never give up !
Ha!
I am quite experienced FreeBSD user, and usually just do it all by hand. So in
this sense I am a wrong person to get scared with incorrect mouse detection
in SaX :) In the worst case I could simply uninstall it, and do all in the
traditional way ;)
--
Best regards,
Alexander.
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