Subject: Re: X server config
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/14/1998 18:22:23
Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 20:40 Uhr +0100 13.02.1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> >Hauke Fath wrote:
> 
> >> <rant>
> >> This "convenience" option <opt>-{1,2,3} has badly broken support for int'l
> >> keyboard mapping, as i pointed out in port-mac68k/4929.
> >
> >Ah, I'll have to look at that.  I've been thinking of rewriting the
> >front-end to the ADB bus
> 
> That's good to hear. =8)

Thanks, we'll have to see how it goes, tho ;-)
 
> >> Sorry to come on so strong, but it was a major PITA to spend an evening
> >> hacking out a correct German kbd layout just to find out that some ignorant
> >> US citizen had "recycled" important keys for "other things".  ;)
> >
> >Actually, I think that Ken is Japanese, but.... :-)
> 
> It wasn't Ken. PR#3887 that suggested (ab)using <opt>-{1,2,3} for mouse
> button emulation was from SUNAGAWA Keiki. (Order? I simply copied the name
> from the PR text...)

Really?  Hmmm....the note in the CVS log for that file said it was Ken, I
thought, wait, no, I guess I was hullucinating.  You're quite right.
Sorry for the confusion.

> >> I couldn't even send-pr from the box because the "@" was missing!
> >
> >Doh!  Well, fortunately, you can probably use the web page, I think.
> 
> What I did in the end was exporting the send-pr template to MacOS and send
> it from Eudora...

<shudder>  well, I'll have to see what can be done about that.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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