On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stan Sanderson wrote: >> I will try this again- >> The latest Gnome runs, but any attempt to input text is hopeless. The >> character mapping is chaotic, at best. If I start X11 by itself (i.e., >> without a .xinitrc file), the keyboard maps correctly and all is well. >> If I start up Gnome, all is lost. > > I have no solution, I can only confirm: > > Run a standard X11 session (in my case with the xquartz-2.3.1 update) > and make sure everything is normal, including an open xterm with working > keyboard input. The window manager doesn't matter, it can be quartz-wm > or metacity or whatever. > > Then run from the command line > > /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon > > You can kill it via ctrl-C immediately, but it will be too late, it will > have screwed up your X11 keyboard input, including in the previously > working xterm. You will have to kill and restart X11 if you want to use > it again.
It turns out that you can rescue an X that's been corrupted in this fashion without restarting it, although it requires a little bit of setup work with an uncorrupted server first. See below for details. > This is definitely *not good*. If the control-center package cannot be > fixed (perhaps by updating to a newer version?), it should be removed > from the 10.5 distribution. Yes, I mentioned this on the fink-gnome-core list back in July. As far as I can tell, the closest we got to a fix was, "there's a new upstream version of control-center; let's see if that fixes things." As suggested solutions go, not so helpful -- the new upstream version hasn't made it into fink unstable yet. See the thread at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.gnome/2070 for a discussion and my imperfect but usable workaround. If anyone needs additional help creating the good .xmodmaprc file or with the rest of the workaround, please feel free to contact me. Finally, just removing control-center is really not a workable solution. It's the only way I've found to make the fonts in Gnome apps like gnucash large enough to be readable, given that I'm not running the Gnome desktop but rather Apple's quartzwm. HTH, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
