On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:33:05PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> Built it for the first time yesterday (I'm still on gcc-4.2.4, but
> I doubt that matters for any of the xorg packages). Not yet sure
> it's working to my satisfaction (I'm using fluxbox until I've built
> a lizard and then icewm, and the keyboard is limited, but maybe it
> always was). This is with lots of things upgraded - a new
> pkg-config, and upgrades ready for gnome-2.24 packages.
>
It isn't satisfactory - I'm now in icewm, but I've lost my extra
keys mapped to AltGr+letter (chevron punctuation as in French,
German double-s, obsolete greenlandic kra, etc), compose (menu key),
dead keys (AltGr + whatever, e.g. AltGr + ';' for acute accent).
I've also lost my remap-to-greek/russian settings (scripts in
icewm, changing from latin map with both shift keys - I suspect the
shift keys are not being recognised). The code for the greek keymap
is
setxkbmap -layout gb,gr -variant ,extended -option compose:menu \
-option grp:shifts_toggle -option grp_led:scroll
So I'm going to have to investigate keyboard handling under 7.4.
One of the reasons why I use icewm is that it's been happy to let
me stay with the "horrible pattern" black and white background. I
thought I might have to specify "startx -retro" with
xorg-server-1.5.1 but in fact I've still got the pattern - perhaps
smaller than it used to be, but definitely not a solid background.
Strangely, once I gave up trying to override the configure script
and just hacked a .pc file for libsqlite3, and upgraded lcms to 1.17,
firefox-3.0.3 wasn't a big deal (this is on x86_64 pure64). No doubt
people who don't force --with-system- settings won't understand that,
but I hate having separate old copies of libraries linked in (anybody
else remember the fun and games with static zlib when a vulnerability
was found ?)
ken
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