[gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Norberto BENSA]

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Hello,

I wrote to Seemant, but he didn't reply and I see more and more people having 
issues with this change:

	08 Apr 2003; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> xfree-4.3.0-r2.ebuild,
	  xfree-4.3.0.ebuild, xfree-4.3.0.ebuild:
	  many fixes in this ebuild -- using the old keymaps from 4.2 to sort out the
	  keymap situation.


My question is: what keymap situation? AFAIK, 4.3.0 keymaps are OK, Why 
downgrade the whole keymaps to 4.2? An explanation from devs (specially 
Seemant) would be very welcome.

Many thanks in advance,
Norberto

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Terje Kvernes]

Norberto BENSA <nbensa@gmx.net> writes:

  [ ... ]

> My question is: what keymap situation? AFAIK, 4.3.0 keymaps are OK,
> Why downgrade the whole keymaps to 4.2? An explanation from devs
> (specially Seemant) would be very welcome.

  I still lack ~ and a few other 'dead' or otherwise interesting keys
  in my terminal emulators.  xev shows the right stuff for
  XLookupString, but the glyph (?) just doesn't show up in the
  terminal.  it's rather annoying, but I just haven't bothered finding
  the culprit and fixing it yet.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Patrick Börjesson]

>   I still lack ~ and a few other 'dead' or otherwise interesting keys
>   in my terminal emulators.  xev shows the right stuff for
>   XLookupString, but the glyph (?) just doesn't show up in the
>   terminal.  it's rather annoying, but I just haven't bothered finding
>   the culprit and fixing it yet.

If your interested my solution was to set the env-variable LANG to
"en_US.ISO8859-1". E.g. export LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" if you're using
bash.

Patrick Börjesson

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Terje Kvernes]

Patrick Börjesson <psycho@rift.ath.cx> writes:

>> I still lack ~ and a few other 'dead' or otherwise interesting keys
>> in my terminal emulators.  xev shows the right stuff for
>> XLookupString, but the glyph (?) just doesn't show up in the
>> terminal.  it's rather annoying, but I just haven't bothered
>> finding the culprit and fixing it yet.
>
> If your interested my solution was to set the env-variable LANG to
> "en_US.ISO8859-1". E.g. export LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" if you're
> using bash.

  thanks.  interesting fix though.  hm, now to figure out the proper
  placement of this, somewhere in /etc/env.d I take it.  it needs to
  be set before starting the terminal, so setting it in my own
  setupfiles doesn't quite seem to do it.  :-/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Patrick Börjesson]

> > If your interested my solution was to set the env-variable LANG to
> > "en_US.ISO8859-1". E.g. export LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" if you're
> > using bash.
> 
>   thanks.  interesting fix though.  hm, now to figure out the proper
>   placement of this, somewhere in /etc/env.d I take it.  it needs to
>   be set before starting the terminal, so setting it in my own
>   setupfiles doesn't quite seem to do it.  :-/

I set mine in /etc/profile and it seems to work for me (I use Eterm
which reads it at every new invocation) and it should work if you just
log out and log in again.

Patrick Börjesson

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Norberto BENSA]

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nbensa@venkman ~ $ date ; echo ${Patrick Börjesson}
Tuesday 06 May 2003 07:52 pm

>
> If your interested my solution was to set the env-variable LANG to
> "en_US.ISO8859-1". E.g. export LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" if you're using
> bash.

That doesn't answer my question. The fact that one won't set LANG in -r1 means 
-r2 is broken. So please, if any dev know why Seemant downgraded keymaps, I'd 
like to know.

Thanks,
Norberto

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:24:45AM +0200, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> I set mine in /etc/profile and it seems to work for me (I use Eterm
> which reads it at every new invocation) and it should work if you just
> log out and log in again.

A better place (more into Gentoo-style) is /etc/env.d/02locale (if it isn't
created yet, create it) with the requested content; mine sais

	swift@Dimosys swift $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale 
	LC_CTYPE="nl_BE@euro"

since I only want my charactertype to change, but keep the language on
English...

Wkr,	
	Sven Vermeulen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Evan Powers]

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 06:19 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> I wrote to Seemant, but he didn't reply
On Tuesday 06 May 2003 08:08 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> So please, if any dev know why Seemant downgraded keymaps

On 4/23/2003 Seemant said (subject "To the unhappy folks") he was "on the 
verge of a 2 week hiatus", so he's quite possibly still on it. He'll probably 
speak up in a few days. That's probably also why he didn't respond to your 
email.

One of the goals of the ebuild maintainership reorganization apparently in 
progress, incidentally, was to eliminate the developer-on-vacation problem; 
so hopefully this kind of thing won't happen in the future....

Evan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Jon Portnoy]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:06:53AM -0400, Evan Powers wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 06:19 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> > I wrote to Seemant, but he didn't reply
> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 08:08 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> > So please, if any dev know why Seemant downgraded keymaps
> 
> On 4/23/2003 Seemant said (subject "To the unhappy folks") he was "on the 
> verge of a 2 week hiatus", so he's quite possibly still on it. He'll probably 
> speak up in a few days. That's probably also why he didn't respond to your 
> email.
> 
> One of the goals of the ebuild maintainership reorganization apparently in 
> progress, incidentally, was to eliminate the developer-on-vacation problem; 
> so hopefully this kind of thing won't happen in the future....
> 


We had someone else working on xfree. He abruptly left without 
explanation... very weird.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree-4.3.0-r2

[Norberto BENSA]

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nbensa@venkman ~ $ date ; echo ${Evan Powers}
Thursday 08 May 2003 02:06 am

> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 08:08 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> > So please, if any dev know why Seemant downgraded keymaps
>
> On 4/23/2003 Seemant said (subject "To the unhappy folks") he was "on the
> verge of a 2 week hiatus", so he's quite possibly still on it. He'll
> probably speak up in a few days. That's probably also why he didn't respond
> to your email.

Oh thank you!! I miss that e-mail somehow. I've read it now. 

Best regards,
Norberto

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