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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Was an Xmodmap file supposed to be in the XFree86 1.2 distribution?
In-Reply-To: rsh26@cas.org's message of Mon, 22 Feb 1993 00:59:32 GMT
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 03:47:44 GMT
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In article <1993Feb22.005932.29520@cas.org> rsh26@cas.org (Robert S. Hall) writes:
I'm working on getting XFree86 1.2 to work on my 386bsd system.
All seems to be fine when starting the X server upto the point of
entering input from the keyboard. It seems as if the keyboard
mapping is incorrect or has never been set. Working from this
assumption, I found that the xinitrc file in the base
distribution refers to a .Xmodmap file which was not included in
the original tar distribution file.
Is the keyboard sending garbage? If so see the errata posted to the
announce group about problems with the kernel binaries.
There is no default .Xmodmap or .Xresources file in the distribution.
The default mapping and resources are those in the server unless you
customize the system by creating these system wide defaults.
The system default xinitrc (in /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/) tests whether
they exist before invoking xmodmap or xrdb, so the are not required.
Neither was the .Xresources
file . My guess is when the tar file was built a '*' was used
instead of the directory name and the (dot) files were bypassed.
Nope, they weren't left out. They simply aren't part of the distribution.
If someone has any knowledge of these problems, and if you have
another explaination please let me know. I am still curious why
others are not having the same problems I did.
The problem is likely elsewhere unless it is a matter of customizing
the keymap or resources to your liking. In that case you will need to
create the files.
Would someone please be kind enough to email a copy of the
following files to me? I do not have access to a site which is
actually using XFree86.
The two files are:
/usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/{.Xmodmap,.Xresources}
These aren't in the distribution. They are simply the hooks available
for a system administrator to customize X. Rich