Backspace key acting as delete button in X3.
I don't know how many people have run into this problem, but I personally did, and then I saw a few people complaining on IRC about it, so I thought I'd take this chance to point out the problem. If you're still running X3, and you've put the X packages on hold, and you use woody, then you may have noticed your backspace key (maybe others too?) stop functioning correctly. This is a result of X4 having xkbcomp somewhere X3 doesn't expect it, and therefore, is unable to find it. I rectified the problem, by linking /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp into /usr/X11/lib/xkb/xkbcomp, and then making a directory called compiled in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb. After all this, I restarted X, and all was well. I don't know if what I'm telling you is a cheap hack, or just plain stupid, but it worked for me, and I figured I'd relay that to the rest of you. Regards, Justin Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backspace key acting as delete button in X3.
I don't know how many people have run into this problem, but I personally did, and then I saw a few people complaining on IRC about it, so I thought I'd take this chance to point out the problem. If you're still running X3, and you've put the X packages on hold, and you use woody, then you may have noticed your backspace key (maybe others too?) stop functioning correctly. This is a result of X4 having xkbcomp somewhere X3 doesn't expect it, and therefore, is unable to find it. I rectified the problem, by linking /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp into /usr/X11/lib/xkb/xkbcomp, and then making a directory called compiled in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb. After all this, I restarted X, and all was well. I don't know if what I'm telling you is a cheap hack, or just plain stupid, but it worked for me, and I figured I'd relay that to the rest of you. Regards, Justin Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: could not open default font 'fixed'
Actually, as well as having to re-install xfonts-base, I noticed that xf86config didn't put /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc in my font path. Since that's the location of the fixed font, it was unable to find it, and did the same thing to me. -- Justin Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, sam th wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When running the command `XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new` as suggested by -configure, I get the following error at the end. Attached is the whole log, gzipped. There are no font paths in that config file, but according to the man page, it reads the defaults anyway, and they are correct. I have installed the 2v13 .debs for xfonts-base, -scalable, -75dpi and - -100dpi. I have tried this with and without xfs running. I can't think of anything else to try. (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (==) Mouse0: Buttons: 3 (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (EE) Mouse0: cannot determine the mouse protocol Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCABD33FC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE53bG/t+kM0Mq9M/wRAmf4AKDIeGTwzbhh35VFyPP+dq//p8tD6gCgp89O /weTvteUJgwPYh4NSCBdFTE= =3t9M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: could not open default font 'fixed'
Actually, as well as having to re-install xfonts-base, I noticed that xf86config didn't put /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc in my font path. Since that's the location of the fixed font, it was unable to find it, and did the same thing to me. -- Justin Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, sam th wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When running the command `XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new` as suggested by -configure, I get the following error at the end. Attached is the whole log, gzipped. There are no font paths in that config file, but according to the man page, it reads the defaults anyway, and they are correct. I have installed the 2v13 .debs for xfonts-base, -scalable, -75dpi and - -100dpi. I have tried this with and without xfs running. I can't think of anything else to try. (**) Option Device /dev/mouse (==) Mouse0: Buttons: 3 (II) Keyboard Keyboard0 handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse0 (type: MOUSE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (EE) Mouse0: cannot determine the mouse protocol Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCABD33FC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE53bG/t+kM0Mq9M/wRAmf4AKDIeGTwzbhh35VFyPP+dq//p8tD6gCgp89O /weTvteUJgwPYh4NSCBdFTE= =3t9M -END PGP SIGNATURE-
