On 2008-11-14, sughosh ganu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So pressing F3 prompts > for a command, but typing does not produce any string. Same is the > case with other keys like F4 and F5.
IIRC it's a locale setup fuckup. You have to have the encoding specified as part of LC_CTYPE for X, e.g. LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.ISO-8859-1, and you have to have the locale compiled for libc. (Debian: config /etc/locale.gen, generate: locale-gen.) -- "[Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -- Oscar Wilde "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion." -- RMS
