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- From: lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: XWindows and virtual consoles
- Message-ID: <Lu8qwB1w165w@dat1hb.north.de>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 19:38:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dat1hb.Lu8qwB1w165w
- Organization: DATELINE Communications, Bremen
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- Hi, Linux community!
- First of all, I wish all of you - and especially Linus and the other guys
- putting together the code - a very happy new year.
- Now for my question: My Linux system runs quite well, I am not
- experiencing too many errors :-) It's only X that is a constant source
- of wonder.
- 1) After starting X, I cannot switch to the other virtual consoles any more.
- ALT-F1 through ALT-F4 simply dump strange characters in the shell window.
- Coming to think of it, I have only tried this with the focus on the shell
- window, not with focus on the desktop. Could this be the problem? My SCO
- system at work switches to and fro quit well, even from and to X (or, rather,
- Motif) sessions. Any suggestions?
- I have installed a new keyboard map for german charcters. Could this be
- buggy? If so, does anyone know of a fix?
-
- 1.a) Is MOTIF free? Is there any chance for a Motif port to Linux? If
- I'm not mistaken, Motif is a product of the FSF, the first F meaning "free".
-
- 2) After exiting (exciting? :-) ) X, I consistently get an error message
- telling me about some broken pipe or something (my memory isn't what it
- used to be). Since everything works OK, I haven't paid this one very much
- attention.
-
- 3) Can anyone tell me how to change the behaviour of X so that focussing
- a window is performed by clicking on it and focus stays on a window until
- I click on another window? It's quite annoying that I have to keep the
- mouse pointer on the shell window while I'm using it.
-
- 4) I recently got ingres from an ftp server here in Germany. Due to a
- damaged archive I haven't been able to test it yet. Does this package include
- esql support? If not, does anyone know of an esql port to linux? I'd be
- simply delighted if I could take my work home with me (yes, I'm that kind
- of person).
- Currently, my project at work includes: SCO Unix (yeuch!), UI generation with
- a toolkit using MOTIF (sources for toolkit available to me). ESQL integration
- with a large ingres database. The rest is C (no C++).
- Does anyone see a possibility of developing the software at home and then
- simply taking a tar archive to work now and then and cimpiling it there? Of
- course, this would depend on a positive answer to item 1.a.
-
- I searched the FAQ list for appropriate answers to these questions but I
- didn't find anything.
-
- Thanks a lot for any info,
- Daniel
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