From: lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze) Subject: XWindows and virtual consoles Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:38:20 GMT
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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