Re: [Fink-users] powerbook keyboard and gnome

Stan Sanderson wrote:
> I will try this again-
> The latest Gnome runs, but any attempt to input text is hopeless. The  
> character mapping is chaotic, at best. If I start X11 by itself (i.e.,  
> without a .xinitrc file), the keyboard maps correctly and all is well.  
> If I start up Gnome, all is lost.

I have no solution, I can only confirm:

Run a standard X11 session (in my case with the xquartz-2.3.1 update) 
and make sure everything is normal, including an open xterm with working 
keyboard input. The window manager doesn't matter, it can be quartz-wm 
or metacity or whatever.

Then run from the command line

   /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon

You can kill it via ctrl-C immediately, but it will be too late, it will 
have screwed up your X11 keyboard input, including in the previously 
working xterm. You will have to kill and restart X11 if you want to use 
it again.

This is definitely *not good*. If the control-center package cannot be 
fixed (perhaps by updating to a newer version?), it should be removed 
from the 10.5 distribution.

-- 
Martin




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