On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:47:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:08:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X,
> > > and
> > > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some
> > > french mac user knowledgeable in X fixes it, or enough people bother the X
> > > strike force to get it fixed (or both).
> >
> > Rather than spluttering with disgust like this, you could try working with
>
> Well, i have spent almost one whole battery-cycle on this problem in the plane
> last month, and tried numerous times to get this fixed previously too. Having
> no { or } or [ or ] or | or \ or ~ is a quite daunting way to do coding,
> especially when one has only one mouse button and thus no copy/paste :/
>
> The fr_new helped there, but it absolutely baffles me to see that changing the
> XF86Config-4 file doesn't get respected, but maybe this is a new and
> wonderfull gnome 2.6 feature ? Yes; GNOME can, will, and does change the keymap. It uses the same underlying X protocol requests as the "setxkbmap" client. There has been much traffic about this on debian-x. > > Denis Barbier, who not only understands XKB and has commit access to the X > > Strike Force SVN repositories, but is French. > > Cool, thanks for the hint. I suppose the only problem is he not having pmac > hardware, right ? As far as I know, yes. -- G. Branden Robinson | If we believe absurdities, we Debian GNU/Linux | shall commit atrocities. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Voltaire http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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