[2540] in testers
Maple problems in 7.7 (Sun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Fri Jul 1 14:01:26 1994
To: lavin@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2440]
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 14:01:10 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
You wrote:
> (5) something is broken with fonts or something, I think -- when I try
> to start Maple (by typing "add maple; maple") I get these warnings in
> my xterm:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>SunCopy" to type VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>SunCut" to type VirtualBinding
> Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>SunPaste" to type VirtualBinding
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageLeft
> Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfPageLeft:PageUpOrLeft(1)'
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPageRight
> Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfPageRight:PageDownOrRight(1)'
>
> and I get an error dialog box from Maple that says:
>
> Unable to load font: "variable"
> Substituted font: "fixed".
>
I think that this is because /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB is not the right one
under 7.7. (It's still broken under 7.7C; maybe a fix is in the
works...) In 7.6 this was a link to /usr/openwin/lib/XKeysymDB, a file
which contains the above keysym definitions.
./dot
