Re: Can't type queries

On 2008-11-15, Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.)

Another thing you might look for is, if the startup errors
(non-logged; you'll have to dig into the console or 
.xsession-errors of you run a DM and it supports it) 
has complaints about "input methods" or "input contexts",
in the case that you're running in a strange locale
(as your name might imply). Ion only has very basic support
for X input managers, so pre-edit windows etc. might not work.

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