Slackware :: Keymap Change In Locally Installed Wmii?
Jul 1, 2010
I've installed wmii as window manager (slackware 13.1) locally, i.e. not system wide. I use a german keyboard and this works fine until I start my window manager. within wmii the german layout is not present (neither in xterm nor in emacs or ooo3 etc). I changed the file /etc/X11/xorg-conf already accordingly but without any effect. Hence I suspect that the local installation of the wmii requires a change of another config-file?!
in 13.0 I remember I had to setup some HAL stuff to get a UK keyboard. Now I have upgraded to 13.1 and my keyboard has been replaced with a US keyboard, so I would like to change the keymap to match. From what I have found when reading X no longer uses HAL? In which case, how would I change the keymap? I am not using an xorg config file.
I avoid capslock like the plague and use "ctrl:nocaps" when in X, and would like to have the same behaviour in the console. Back when I was using Debian I got it set up the way I want, but now I can't seem to locate the default keymap. I tried editing
Every time I log in, I get 5 alerts. When I check them out, there is nothing to see. Everything is blank. I'm tired of seeing this lousy popup each time I login. How can I fix this? Also, how do I change the systems default keymap to dvorak (before login screen)
so, maybe stupidly I tried this. Which seems to have changed nothing.
so then I try
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loadkeys -d
to try and get back to the default. Which doesn't seem to work. so then thinking i should reset everything, try to go in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty and do
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loadkeys defkeymap.map.gz
Finally, I go into /etc/X11 and edit xorg.conf-vesa to uncomment
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# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" and restart.
Is it possible to run a program installed on a remote Ubuntu PC on the local PC? What I'm talking about is different from simply sending the GUI over the network (like X tunelling). I want the program to use the processor of the local machine. Is this possible? (Here's an example. PC 1 has a fast processor. PC2 has gimp installed on it but has a slow processor. Can PC2 make GIMP run on PC1's processor over the network?)
I have rhel5.4 in my vmware , i am trying to install yum repositories in /home/Server bcoz i dont have enough space in /var/ftp/pub. i installed vsftpd ,createrepo rpms and index is installed, but when i check for yum list its saying cannot change directory.
I often connect to my main box via ssh and then run 'screen.' The client machine is running Slackware64 13.1, the box I connect to is running Slackware64-currentSome time ago I noticed the following phenomenon:1. Sometimes (relatively often) cli apps just freeze usually at the very beginning (when they start) and I have to either use Ctrl+C or kill a screen window. It happens both with screen an without it. I've noticed it with vim (never with emacs -nw, or nano), "slackpkg upgrade-all", sbopkg).2. Sometimes/some CLI programs display 'weird' characters. For example, sbopkg's border. It does not happen when I run the same app locally.Is it something to do with encoding? It happens both with and without 'screen'.Both 1 and 2 happen with sakura (my main terminal emulator), terminal, konsole and xterm.
Does anyone know of a beginners guide to wmii? I saw this picture, and thought it looked pretty cool. I was wondering if someone knew how to make the currently playing last fm song to show up on the bar like it does in that picture. Also, does anyone know of a way to display the amount of charge left in my laptop battery?
I have upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04. I have been using wmii as window manager under ubuntu for years. After the upgrade it's entirely broken.
The metakey is not working anymore, I cannot do anything. The key itself works fine in other environments so is's no hardware issue. After several attempts I completely uninstalled wmii, removed all relevant folders in home and /etc/X11 and reinstalled wmii from the ubuntu repositories.
This fresh install does not work. It starts a strange looking wmii without any key responding to my actions. I copied my old wmiirc to ~/.wmii. When i log in I see my individualized wmii but the metakey is not working and i cannot do anything, like opening a shell.
Edit: A change to "MODKEY=ALT" in wmiirc does not change anything.
I installed jessie 8.1 and wmii ( Version: 3.10~20120413+hg2813-8) and I use a basic wmiirc.
Code: Select all:~/.wmii-3.10$ ls -la wmiirc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8033 août 1 17:28 wmiirc
If I want to run wmii the system says:Code: Select all:~$ wmii
wmii: fatal: another window manager is already running
Some information :
Code: Select all~$ update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Il existe 3 choix pour l'alternative x-window-manager (qui fournit /usr/bin/x-window-manager).
Sélection Chemin Priorité État ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 /usr/bin/wmii 60 mode automatique 1 /usr/bin/metacity 60 mode manuel 2 /usr/bin/mutter 60 mode manuel * 3 /usr/bin/wmii 60 mode manuel
I installed the webilder application to automatically change the wallpaper, preferences you've specified the directory where the images but I can not change the background. Does anyone know why not change?
I have installed multilib support in my 64bit slackware 13.37 installation than I proceed it to install google earth from slackbuilds... and did ln -sf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-lsb.so.3Now when I try to run google earth I get:[ 760.092745] googleearth-bin[3647]:segfault at 984f7d31 ip 00000000984f7d31 sp 00000000ffbfe100 error 4
I've tried a few different ways to install the ATI graphics driver "fglrx" to get 3D acceleration.If I try to install using the standard file "ati-driver-installer-10-4-x86.x86_64.run" from the ATI web site it appears to work but then I discover it actually got an error.I saw a reference to ATI requiring 32-bit libraries to install their 64-bit driver. Is there a link or post that explains how to add the 32-bit libraries. Will that solve the problem, or will I just waste more time trying that?
I was trying to plug projector on my laptop with slackware 13.1 installed. The problem is that the projector stops showing whenever I start X. I can see everything starting from LILO loader, but whenever I type "startx" - bam, no signal or just a black screen on the wall. I try to switch to console mode with ctrl+alt+f1 - the view appears, switching back to X with ctrl+alt+f7 - view disappears. I am using awesome WM. I tried XFCE, but the result was the same. I also tried to change resolution to
Code: xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768 / 800x600 , but again, no difference. My laptop is ASUS F3Jc. Fn keys doesn't help as well.
I have a system without a cd reader so i dd'd the livecd iso (I'm stuck with 7.10) to a partition. I can boot the system with grub4dos by loading the kernel and ramdisk. Is there a kernel parameter I can append so I can change the keymap like I was able to by pressing F3 in the cd boot menu?
Some time ago I acquired a non-working Apple Power Macintosh G4 with an Apple Pro Keyboard - model M7803 - (and a LaCie electron22blue CRT monitor). The fault turned out to be simple to fix and a re-install of OS X Leopard produced a working system - with all keys on the keyboard returning the symbols engraved thereon. BUT - Leopard is the last version of OS X to support PPC machines. SO - I've added a second hard drive which I'm using to experiment with dual-booted Linux distributions. I'm currently using the latest version of MintPPC. The first installation step is to do a network install of a basic CLI Debian Squeeze setup. Then the 'Mint' bits are added. System Monitor reports:Debian Release 6.0.1
Kernel 2.6.32-5-powerpc GNOME 2.30.2
My M7803 keyboard is sort of 'British' - Shift+3 gives '�'.However, compared to a standard 105-key PC keyboard, @ and " are interchanged in the US fashion. The installed keymap handles these keys but fails for the two extra keys - key 49 (the key to the left of '1') and key 94 (the key to the left key of 'Z'). I found a 'fix' for this here: [URL] using xmodmap. BUT - this fix has to be done each time the machine is started. how can I make the changes 'stick'? One way would be to create a modified keymap and then point my system to it. However, all of the suggestions I've found on how to do this founder on the non-availability of either an application or a file or some detail of how to ensure that the modified keymap is used. Edit] Should have followed the Ubuntu forum thread to the bitter end. Creating a ~/.Xmodmap file automates the process - but you would need to create this file for each user.
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. Setting clock (utc): Thu Jul 16 18:54:50 CEST 2009 [ OK ]
During boot-up of openSUSE 11.2 (dup'd from 11.1; default runlevel 3) the following message appears:
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My question now: Is there a way to tell SUSE to set the above mentioned keymap using UTF-8 encoding instead of assuming ISO-8859-15?
The few Google search results (~7) on this topic also seem to indicate that this is a 'German-only' problem because it only seems to appear when setting German keymaps.
I just happened to lock myself out of ssh access on my xen virtual server since I changed the ssh port but forgot to open it in the firewall. No problem, I just access it through VNC in VM manager, I thought, however I have some special chars in my root password and the keymap through VNC seems to have changed somehow. So I cant login as root, nor do su or sudo. I can login as user. I need the sign " but can't figure out how.
I have given up on trying to change the resolution on my old server with 11.3 installed because there is no easy way in 11.3 to change to 1024 x 768 x 64K colours to accomodate the inadequate memory of the on board display adaptor so I have reinstalled 11.2 which had gui for controlling display resolution.
I must keep my /home partition intact and therein, I suspect lies the problem because in the /home directory there are both .kde and .kde4 directories. Although immediately after installation of 11.2 (network install) kde 3.5 was running, after all the updates had run I ended up with kde 4.3.5 and therefore the same problem of not being able easily to change screen resolution. Is it possible to revert to earlier kde and how should I do this please? Another option I have still to try is to install a display adaptor card. The machine bios is supposed to turn off the integrated display controller if it detects one in a slot, but how do I get my operating system to find and install drivers for the new card?
I've downloaded a program called Aptana to my Ubuntu system it is available as a plugin for eclipse, but Eclipse would not install it this way so I got the stand-alone version. I unzipped it to a folder in my home folder called Aptana and I set up a launcher to launch it from the menu.This works just fine, but it might be helpful if instead of the launcher icon I could use the icon that came with the program. It is stored in the Aptana folder.
I am running Windows 7 inside KVM on Cent OS 5.6. how do you change the screen size of the Windows 7 KVM. It is about a third of the size of the current screen resolution.
This may be a dumb question, but can packages built for Bluewhite64 (any version) be installed in Slackware 13.0? I don't have a working Linux box ATM so I can't try it myself.
I have, installed in my machine, Firefox 2.0.0.4 and, wishing to add certain feature , I went to ftp.nluug.nl /pub/os/Linux/distr/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/source/mozilla-firefox/. Firefox 2.0.0.20 has that feature. But, despite teh presence of the .SlackBild, threre is no compilation here. It's a patch realized over the binaries already installed in my machine. The question is: How does the .SlackBuild know he is in the presence of 2.0.0.4? That is, he cannot update if he does not know from where it is starting.
