On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 09:15:35PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > 1. Since upgrading to Debian 2.0 my compose key (Control-. on a normal > screen and Control-Scroll-lock in X11) does not work anymore. In X11 I had > to run xkeycaps to restore it, but I do not know how to restore it in for > normal use. My .inputrc looks like this:
Is ctrl-period defined as the compose key (see "dumpkeys")? > 2. It took me a long time to customize settings for xterm, pine and emacs > for X11 using Debian 1.3.1. Now those settings have no effect under > Debian 2.0. I do not know how to get that right again. I hope that using > Linux does not mean that I have to all the configuration over again every > time I do an upgrade. My .xsession and .Xdefaults - files are apparently > ignored by X. "mv .Xdefaults .Xresources" and make sure you have "allow-user-resources" and "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config . HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan