I posted the same initial message on the three sites I thought were appropriate. My plea for honesty was a measure of frustration with what should be well-established packages. It turns out that in the newer distros, the structure of /usr/X11R6 has changed dramatically enough that it broke a .cshrc file that had worked for five years.
Art Edwards On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:18:40PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Ozzy Lash wrote: > >On 7/12/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console > >>at the bottom is dead. > >>The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in > >>all > >>text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general problem because the > >>same is true for > >>Fedora Core 5, but not for Fedora Core 4. I have compiled xmgrace > >>from sources and > >>I have the same problem. I have done some looking and this problem > >>surfaced > >>several years ago on a cygwin list. > >>Just for the record, when I invoke xmgrace from the command line, I > >>receive many errors like this: > >> > >>Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors > >>Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp > >> > >>I get exactly the same set from ddd. Again, this is true for AMD64 > >>for both Debian and for Fedora Core 5. > >> > >> > >>Art Edwards > > > >I did a google search for "Warning: String to TranslationTable > >conversion encountered errors" and found this link: > > > >http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82087 > > > >With the following suggestion: > >The answer is: > > > >export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB > > > > > >This is also needed to get the grace package to work right on Breezy, > >BTW. > > > > > >Hope this helps > > > > > What is that honesty things invading all news group from Debian? > Please answer only to the list the mail is originating. On top, I am > wondering why we have so many ' tell the truth mail lately. > Thierry > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
