Re: [blfs-support] keyboard setup in graphical terms

2016-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 04:47:49PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > >Thanks. /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev shows the symbol names > >are BKSP and DELE with values of 22 and 119. > > > >xmodmap -pke shows (for these) > >keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace

Re: [blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 20:03 -0600, Rob wrote: > I've been looking at some different startup control methodoligies.  > Basically between systemd and upstart. I like upstart because frankly > it looks a lot simpler and neater than systemd. > I'm well into blfs, however, and converting all my

[blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Rob
I've been looking at some different startup control methodoligies. Basically between systemd and upstart. I like upstart because frankly it looks a lot simpler and neater than systemd. I'm well into blfs, however, and converting all my services to upstart jobs seems rather daunting. Is there a

Re: [blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: I've been looking at some different startup control methodoligies. Basically between systemd and upstart. I like upstart because frankly it looks a lot simpler and neater than systemd. I'm well into blfs, however, and converting all my services to upstart jobs seems rather daunting.

Re: [blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 02:44 +, Ken Moffat wrote: > [in Dr. McCoy's voice] "It's dead Jim" Well yeah, there is that. With both Ubuntu and Redhat having abandoned it for Systemd, it's pretty clear Upstart isn't a project with a strong future... no releases in the past year. I think Chrome OS

Re: [blfs-support] Switching to Upstart

2016-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: What's wrong with the sysvinit scripts? Of course it is your system, but I'm curious. Nothing's wrong with them exactly. But I find it difficult to import other init scripts. For example, I run a server called bitlbee. When I tried to use

[blfs-support] keyboard setup in graphical terms

2016-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat
When I was playing with Mint and Fedora last week, I had to change the term's keyboard configuration. Similarly when I tried other DEs in BLFS last year, so this appears to be true for all modern desktop terms. For me, I always need: Backspace : ^H Delete: Escape Sequence but these are not

Re: [blfs-support] keyboard setup in graphical terms

2016-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Thanks. /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev shows the symbol names are BKSP and DELE with values of 22 and 119. xmodmap -pke shows (for these) keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace NoSymbol \ NoSymbol Terminate_Server NoSymbol NoSymbol Terminate_Server For me

Re: [blfs-support] keyboard setup in graphical terms

2016-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:23:16PM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 08/02/2016 21:40, Ken Moffat wrote: > > When I was playing with Mint and Fedora last week, I had to change > > the term's keyboard configuration. Similarly when I tried other DEs > > in BLFS last year, so this appears to be