Re: re blackbox and icewm

[Scott <scottro@example.com>]

At 13:21 2001/07/12 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> writes:
>
>     Scott> Meanwhile, that file that I mentioned in an earlier post
>     Scott> seems promising.  Fortunately, it's a bash script rather
>
>Yes.  X is hard to configure because it's designed to be distributed
>across as many boxes as are on the network, and they did make a few
>mistakes in design.  Unfortunately, for some reason people prefer to
>reinvent the configuration wheel in ever more complex ways rather than
>document it.
>
>Fortunately, most of the configuration, except for XF86Config, is in
>the form of an arbitrary executable file, usually a shell script.
>
>There's a good chance that if you put
>
>export XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2"
>
>in that shell script, things will start to work.


Now it becomes almost comical---as it's late here (NYC) I thought, well, 
let me add that to the .xinitrc for user scottro and see what happens, 
before going to sleep.
X wouldn't start.  I just got a grey screen with the mouse as an X.  Hrrm, 
I thought, ok, let's take that line out.  Same thing.  Now, it won't start 
unless I remove the kinput2 -canna line as well.  Not sure what I did here.

I should mention that this is a learning install, so I can break it, 
reinstall it, whatever.   For my more serious Linux work at home, I'm using 
the RH 7.1 English.  I think I better let this wait till tomorrow though, 
I'm punchy.



>     Scott> I don't know if I mentioned that if I start icewm or
>     Scott> blackbox, kinput2 -canna does not automatically start. I've
>     Scott> fixed that by adding a line to the .xinitrc so it's one
>     Scott> less thing to worry about.
>You got that right all by yourself.  :-)

  Hrmmm---well, "got" is past tense, so that's 
appropriate.  :)  (Seriously, if it worked before, I'm sure I'll track down 
what I did and get it working again.)


>
>
>Are you using XFree86 4.x?  If so, you have the old-style config file.
>You might try /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -xf86config and see what comes
>out.  XF86 4 is _much_ smarter than the third-party Xconfusticators
>about talking to "smart" hardware.


Ok, but that will have to wait till tomorrow--I did do a quick attempt at 
reconfiguration with RH's startup tool, but no luck.  From what I've heard 
here and there (not serious searches on deja, simply from talking to 
friends) it seems that most folks using the intellimouse optical don't have 
much luck getting the wheel to work as third button--but everyone (all 2 or 
3 people) has gotten the 3rd button emulation by pushing both left and 
right buttons.

Frustrating as it becomes sometimes, it reminds me of why I began playing 
with computers in the first place.  About 2 months ago, I thought, Gee, why 
don't I take a 2 week break from studying for these Cisco exams and go back 
to playing with Linux.  Hrrm,  a long two weeks. :)

Scott