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From: wmbfmk@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD]Mosaic-2.0 from Thomas Krebs
Date: 16 Dec 1993 02:05:52 +0100
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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csshah@sunvis2.vislab.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah) writes:

>In <wmbfmk.755970321@rwb.urc.tue.nl> wmbfmk@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen) writes:


>>I have a similar problem with the binary from bsdi.com (I use NetBSD
>>0.9). Whenever I start Mosaic, it complains a lot about keybindings it
>>can't find, and as a result my keyboard is useless within Mosaic.

>>Marc van Kempen.

>The bsdi binary expects your XKeysymDB file to be in a particular
>directory. The way XFree86 is set up, the XKeysymDB is is another
>directory. So, to get around this problem, create a symlink  in the
>appropriate directory (/usr/lib/X11) or do what i've done(and what the
>FAQ tells you to do) set an environment variable --

>XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X386/lib/X11/XKeysymDB 

>it should work just fine then.

>viren
Thanks,

but I do have a symlink to that directory and I've tried setting an
environment variable, both to no avail.

I do have a rather old X distribution (1.1 I think), but I'm running an
1.3 Server. 


Marc.