Re: Sorry keyboard problems
Re: Sorry keyboard problems
- Subject: Re: Sorry keyboard problems
- From: Andreas Fink <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:32:16 +0100
On Samstag, Januar 11, 2003, at 10:57 Uhr, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
wrote:
> On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 08:38 PM, Andreas Fink wrote:
>
>> the xterm is really not very useful.
>> 1) macintosh copy & paste doesnt work (standard terminal is much
>> better
>> in this respect) so if you are used to use cmd-c / cmd-v be happy that
>> you can now retype everything manualy now :-(.
>
> Copy and paste in xterm work in exactly the way they are supposed to
> do in X apps, and text copied in an xterm window can be pasted
> in native apps with cmd-v (see the FAQ for more details).
But this is not standard X, this is Aqua and it will be used by
Macintosh users who have never used X before.
Having a menu saying "Paste" which is not active is VERY confusing.
As far as the FAQ goes, there are NONE. Or at least I was not able to
find them as many others seem.
>
>> 2) trying to set the keyboard (which is US by default, even macOS X is
>> set to swiss german) results in a bus error:
>>
>> bash-2.05a$ setxkbmap -layout ch_DE
>> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
>> Use defaults: rules - 'xfree86' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
>> Bus error
>> bash-2.05a$
>
> True, but the FAQ mentions an easy workaround that works
> with most international keyboards. It is also possible to solve
> this problem by writing an appropriate .xmodmap file and
> adding "xmodmap ~/.xmodmap" in your .xinitrc file
> (see numerous posts in this list; I'm using a Spanish .xmodmap myself).
There's no archive or FAQ to search so how should I find this?
>> So basically no non-US guy can use this software.
>> Not really Apple like. What's wrong here?
>
> I for one have a Spanish ISO keyboard, and I'm using it with xterm
> without
> any problems whatsoever. IMHO, X11 has glitches, but it's far from
> unusable, even for
> users with international keyboards.
Well if you are used to swiss german keyboard and you have to type in
US keyboard, I can tell you it is definitively unusable as often used
items like | or ~ or / or & can not be found anymore. A simple
preferences settings, is what one would expect from a Apple software.
Otherwhise we could simply remove aqua and run X directly. The whole
goal to bring X on to the MacOS X is to give MacOS users the power of X
applications while retaining the ease of use of MacOS. otherwise they
should buy a Linux box or a Sun.
>
Andreas Fink
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