Re: Compose-key and X11-geometry issues.

1998-08-31 Thread jdassen
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
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Re: Compose-key and X11-geometry issues.

1998-08-31 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 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)?

No. There are just the references to the different characters that can be
formed by using compose e.g.

keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
alt_is_meta
...
compose '`' 'A' to 'À'
compose '`' 'a' to 'à'
...

How do I define the compose key?  According to the
Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.gz Control-period is the default Compose Key.
That was the case in Debian 1.3.1.

I am using the US keyboard definition.  Do I have to change to some
European keyboard?

  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 .


My .Xdefaults and .Xresource have the same contents:
-
*XmTextField.translations: #override\n\
  KeyosfDelete: delete-next-character()
XTerm*utmpInhibit: false
emacs.font: 7x14
emacs.geometry: 85x30
xpdf.geometry:80x32
pine.geometry: 101x32
xterm.geometry: 101x32
lynx.geometry:101x32k
---

Here is the contents of my /etc/X11/config:
-
run-xconsole
obey-nologin
allow-user-resources
allow-user-modmap
allow-user-xsession
allow-failsafe
#start-xdm
#xdm-start-server
no-xdm-start-server
no-start-xdm
-

I still seems that X is ignoring it.

Johann

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