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Re: RH4.0 arrived - some thoughts:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Baverstock)
Fri Nov 1 07:22:30 1996
From: Tim Baverstock <warwick@mmm.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:20:07 GMT
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Tim Baverstock wrote:
> >
> > > * GPM's -R option makes my `ms' mouse look like a mouse systems
> > We don't run GPM with -R by default though...
> -R isn't needed with the 2.0 kernels, since the single-open limitation is
> removed with them.
Ah, I forgot to mention; with GPM running, MetroX wouldn't. Hang on..
...my mistake. I told it to open ttyS0, not cua0 or mouse, although as Otto
pointed out, gpm -R enables the third mouse button, so I'm going to use
that for the time being anyway - why settle for a second-rate system, eh? ;)
A couple of other things have cropped up, however:
The '\|' (94) key works and displays fine in VCs and through rsh, but in
Xterms (and under XEmacs) bar tries to appear as \246 (0xA6) instead of \174
(0x7C) and is suppressed by the shell because it's a meta-character (which
latter differs from the behaviour I'm used to). From rsh in the xterm, another
(Linux 1.2.5) computer displays it as bar, but it's still treated as \246, so
I can't pipe things on the far computer. This is a UK keyboard, complete with
sterling over the 3, '#~' (51) beside the similarly sized backspace key.
These relevant lines are in /etc/X11/Xconfig:
KbdDesc "English: UK"
KbdDescFile metro(en_GB)
and these in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Metro/keyboards/uk.modmap:
keycode 51 = numbersign asciitilde
keycode 94 = backslash bar
If I say to use the default mapping, I just get a US keyboard. Presumably
all this is related to Emacs in VC displaying sterling as itself, and XEmacs
displaying it as \243. What do I need to remap?
The other thing, if I'm not viewing the graphics screen, certain X programs
appear to pause execution until I change back. I'm used to being able to
switch back to the text consoles while netscape or whatever continues
downloading in the background, and that's been fine with a two year old XFree,
but MetroX doesn't seem to like that idea. Examples which drift to mind
include:
Actually closing MetroX down seems to require the graphics console visible,
and opening it up, and switching to text before the grey speckly screen is
replaced by the blue of fvwm also puts it to sleep. Takes a while to wake
itself up again, too.
RedBaron's startup is delayed - once the banner's displayed, switching to a
text screen halts it, until you flick back, when the hard drive starts back up
and it does some more init, until the browser proper pops up.
Does MetroX queue a certain number of events, but then just tell the program
to hold off until it can flush that queue to screen? Netscape's animation
would appear to confirm that - if I switch back during a download, there's
always a speedy complete cycle of the animation before it drops back to normal
levels.
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