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Topic: xsetup.sh in DSL 1.0 RC1, Keymap selection fails

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mats
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Posted: Mar. 09 2005,21:46

hi Reidar
just a slight off-topic question since you are using the same keyboard
layout as me..
Are you able to use the @ key (altGr+2) with firefox or opera.
im not and its making my life difficult
as im using DSL for setting up public surfboxes
(here: www.hausmania.org )
with 24to64mb of ram, and I have not found any
other distro doing the job.

hilsen Mats

reidar

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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,07:17

Heisann Mats!

No, unfortunately I haven't found any good solution to this yet. My simple workaround is to write a @ in scite (or now beaver) and copy/paste it into firefox/opera, but of course this is not a very good solution... It seems to me that although the no-standard.kmap.gz is loaded (in /opt/bootlocal.sh), this is not really made the system keymap. But for some reason it works fine in almost every application (including text-editors, wordprocessors, ... even sylpheed), but not the web-browsers. We should try and find a solution to this, cause it is really annoying!

-r

mats
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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,15:42

hei igjen reidar

It seems to me that this has nothing to do with the keymap, norwegian or what ever.
it seems that something is broken with some apps(Firefox and Opera most importantly) and the alt gr key....
try loading some other keymaps and type all relevant keys
and nothing will appear...
i dont know how many keymaps that uses altGr to get the @ but it could be quite a few...
...so this is a BIG small bug that needs to be fixed before the great
DSL 1.0 release as it makes DSL partly unusefull in several countries (some quite big, like germany).
-Try convincing people to use DSL in favour of win98 when they cant even write an email address....

I hope that the devs are aware of the problem and understand the impact this will have on DanmSmalls adaption in alot of europe and other altGr@ countries

cheers Mats

reidar

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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,18:38

You may be right Mats, but I am not sure that some of the apps are broken... I have also used Feather linux quite a lot, and the exact same problem appears. Now, you might say that Feather and DSL are very similar, but I don' really think both have 'broken' some apps. But I am in the dark here really. Everything works as it should in both Knoppix and Debian, the two distros both DSL and Feather are derived from.

-r

ke4nt1

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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,19:16

Curious..

Both debian and knoppix use the gtk2/pango/defoma packages
for browser and font management..

Has anyone tried installing the firefox 1.0PR, which uses gtk2
and pango/defoma , to see if it makes a difference ?

( that you CAN write the @ symbol in other locale maps )

73
ke4nt

13 replies since Mar. 08 2005,18:50

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