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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: X386 (SLS) + X8514: olvwm and xmodmap problems
- Message-ID: <w991wB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 19:44:31 EST
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- I'm having a few problems with the above-mentioned combination (that's the
- X386 from SLS 0.99 plus x8514new plus xview3L2 plus olvwm).
-
- 1) olvwm hangs the system after a few events. I can reliably reproduce it
- by going into the Properties editor and popping up the menu of property
- groups: on about the sixth time the pop-up menu only draws partially, and
- the system hangs. Other olvwm-related actions also cause it; however,
- actions on a client such as xterm do not. olwm from xview3L2 works fine,
- although it has the zombie process bug described by other posters. twm also
- works (but it's UGLY! :-) I'm not running out of memory; I checked.
- BTW, this is the olvwm built from the .a file (olvwmbin_gcc2.2.2.T.Z); the
- olvwm binary from olvwmbin dumps core when invoked.
-
- 2) I tried to use xmodmap to swap the caps-lock and control keys, because
- I'm an old-fogie keyboarder who expects the control key *above* the shift
- key. :-) I was successfully able to patch the kernel to do this in the
- translated (non-scancode) mode, but when I use xmodmap to do the same under
- X the only thing that swaps is which key toggles the keyboard LED; the
- result is slightly bizarre. (Watch the caps-lock LED blink while entering
- ^X^C in emacs. :-) I did this using the standard .xinitrc functionality,
- so it's not a question of clients not seeing a MappingNotify event or
- something of that nature.
-
- I haven't checked these with the stock X386 server, so both may well be
- X8514 bugs (it *is* an alpha release, but it's also the best server I can
- find for an ATI Graphics Vantage...).
-
- Anyone else seen these?
-
- ++Brandon
-
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- He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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