Re: Orion doesn't respond to keyboard after startup

David Frese <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:19:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.scsh
Message-ID <1184613547.5794.10.camel@df-2>
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:15 -0700, James Wright wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been trying to get Orion working, and I'm running into a problem
> that I haven't been able to resolve through Googling.
> 
> I'm able to compile and install orion, and I've edited my .xsession
> file to start it up.  When I start X using this .xsession file, I
> (eventually) see a title bar that says "<empty frame>" at the top of
> the screen.  None of the default keys (or indeed, any keys) seem to
> produce any effect whatsoever - I can't start a program or add
> workspaces or in any way get Orion to acknowledge my existence. :)
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this sort of problem, or is there some
> sort of obvious error that I'm making?

Seems like the focus is in the wrong/no window (that was a big mess all
the time). You could try to start an initial application from within
the .xsession file just before you start Orion (e.g. "xterm &")... maybe
that helps Orion to get into the right state again.

> Thanks very much,
>       James

Sorry for the late reply.

-- 
David