On Nov 17, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: > >> I think I sent this message to wrong address (sorry), so I am sending >> it again. >> I compiled bundle-gnome on my ibook which went well. However, the >> generic keymap does not map to the ibook keyboard. Am I missing some >> package that needs to be built that provides the proper keymap? >> Also, >> is it possible to go rootless mode in Gnome? I looked for a way to >> turn off the desktop or the desktop icons like is done in KDE to get >> into rootless mode, but I did not find any command to do this. >> Thanks >> for the help. My kit is: >> Package manager version: 0.28.6 >> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Mon Nov 17 12:10:38 2008, >> 10.5, >> powerpc >> OSX 10.5.5 >> Xtools 3.1 >> powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488) >> >> Gary K Olson >> > > To run rootless, try "gnome-panel" instead of gnome-session. (this is > mentioned in "fink info bundle-gnome"). >
Gary, et. al.- I have had similar problems with the latest Gnome files. The following correspondence with Martin Costabel may help. > Richard Cobbe wrote: > [] >> 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. > > You can create an xmodmap file corresponding to your current good > keymap > from the output of > > xmodmap -pke > > This, of course, needs to be run before gnome gets a chance to destroy > the keymap, for example without X11 running and without any mention of > gnome in ~/.xinitrc. > > Then, if you name this file ~/.Xmodmap, it will be seen by the > gnome-settings-daemon. The first time it sees it, it opens a little > window and asks you if it should load it and subsequently it loads it > automatically. At least that is what I just saw after removing the > ~/.gnome2* and ~/.gconf* directories and starting > /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon from the command line. > > I suggest therefore the following procedure: > > 1. Quit X11 and move ~/.xinitrc out of the way. Then run > > xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap > > (This will start X11 again.) > > 2. Clean your config files: > > rm -rf ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome2* > > 3. Run the gnome-settings-daemon: > > /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon > > This will open a window where you can choose .Xmodmap, click on > "+Load" > and then "OK". > > From then on, your gnome keymap should be OK. > > An uglier, but much simpler hack is described at the end of this > message. > > From control-center I still get error messages about not being able to > start the gnome-settings-daemon, but at least the keymap is now OK. > > Here is how I explain the situation: The gnome-applets package > installs > a whole bunch of xmodmap files into /sw/share/xmodmap/, and almost all > of these are crap. There is even one, xmodmap.us-mac, that admits > unashamedly what it does. Here is an excerpt: > > ! This file makes the following changes: > [] > ! The "Q" key generates udiaeresis, Udiaeresis, diaeresis, and > dead_diaeresis > ! The "W" key generates oacute, Oacute, cedilla, and dead_cedilla > ! The "E" key generates BackSpace > ! The "R" key generates Tab and ISO_Left_Tab > ! The "T" key generates w, W, bar, and Lstroke > ! The "Y" key generates q, Q, backslash, and Greek_OMEGA > > and so on. This is just the braindamage one gets by default from > gnome, > because by default it runs xmodmap /sw/share/xmodmap/xmopdmap.us, > which > has the same keycode table. If there is a joke behind this deliberate > garbling of the keyboard, I don't get it. > > There is actually one keymap (out of 86) in that directory that works > OK, xmodmap.de-apple, but this is the only one. > > The ugly hack is to prevent the loading of the garbled keymaps by > simply > moving the whole directory /sw/share/xmodmap out of the way. There > may > then be an error message about not finding some file, but at least the > keymap is not destroyed. > > -- > Martin Stan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
