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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:15755 comp.windows.open-look:10225 comp.os.386bsd.questions:16998 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!romulus.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!venus.sun.com!wnoc-sfc-news!fxmxgw!kspgwy!iwagw!jun From: jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp (Junichi Kurokawa) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.open-look,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [tip] get around the XView translation problem with X11R6 Followup-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix Date: 10 Mar 1995 03:24:23 GMT Organization: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Akasaka, Tokyo. Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JUN.95Mar10122423@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Are you having an annoying problem when starting an XView application in XFree86-3.1? Well, you can get around it easily. [problem] * XView applications complain that it doesn't find "translation whatever" when invoked, taking several extra seconds delay to start. [measurement] * turn "NumLock" off before you start your X server. Do either of these. (1) simply hit the key once to turn it off. (yes, it works!) (2) disable "NumLock" in your BIOS setup. (3) use a utility if you have one i.e. setleds(1) in linux. Lars Koeller <uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> and A. Rohde <exp109@modcomp.physik.uni-kiel.de> shared their experience on the net how to get around it, mentioning the third alternative above. Consequently, I confirmed that the first technique also worked in FreeBSD, so the second technique should give substantially the same outcome. [people I owe credits] Lars Koeller <uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> A. Rohde <exp109@modcomp.physik.uni-kiel.de> Hope this helps, junichi -- Junichi Kurokawa Enterprise Networking Development Division Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.