Re: Can't type queries

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2008-11-14, sughosh ganu <[email protected]> wrote:
> So pressing F3 prompts
> for a command, but typing does not produce any string. Same is the
> case with other keys like F4 and F5.

IIRC it's a locale setup fuckup. You have to have the encoding
specified as part of LC_CTYPE for X, e.g. LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.ISO-8859-1,
and you have to have the locale compiled for libc. (Debian:
config /etc/locale.gen, generate: locale-gen.)

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