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Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: wmadan on January 10, 2005, 04:36:14 pm
This past weekend I loaded X/Qt on my SL-C860 (Cacko ROM 1.22) using Hatchetman's instructions posted on the Debian wiki site.

I got the X/Qt Server icon to show up on my desktop, along with the PocketWorkstation icon. Clicking the Pocketworkstation icon loaded the X/Xqt Server (icon minimized on the taskbar), but all I got was a blank white screen with a mouse arrow pointer. I could exit gracefully through the menu button.

I read the posts that talked about the icewm font preferences, but I must have not entered the values in right so that didn't work.

In the meantime, I loaded blackbox, the X/qt startup scripts and when I did, the PocketWorkstation icon was replaced by a "Startx" icon that looked just like the X/Qt Server icon. Now I can launch X/Qt with Blackbox, but where did the Pocketworkstation icon go?

So, if I delete the abovementioned packages, will I be back to where I was before when I had just the blank white screen showing up or did I hose the installation?

Thanks,

Bill
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: hatchetman on January 10, 2005, 08:54:25 pm
When you clicked the pocketworstation and the screen turns from a gray screen to a white one with a nicer mouse icon, that's definitely IceWM starting. My best bet is the IceWM bar is actually there hidden behind the Qtopia bar, so go full screen to be sure. If it's not in hiding, try right clicking by holding the Fn key and clicking somewhere with the mouse, and see if you can get any IceWM menus.

Once the POCKETWORKSTATION Wiki goes writable again, I'll throw up a troubleshooting section that covers common problems like this.

The PocketWorkstation icon is something only in my modified startup scripts found linked on the wiki page. When you installed the xqt-startup scripts with blackblox package it would have overwrote the icons with the default ones. If you remove the xqt-startup-scripts and reinstall the modifies startup-scripts in theory it should go back to the way it was.
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: wmadan on January 10, 2005, 11:38:35 pm
Hatchetman,

Thanks for replying.

I rolled everything back. Now the PocketWorkstation icon is back and launching it in fullscreen mode reveals the Icewm "start" button at the bottom as you indicated.

Menus "sort of" work -- I think I have to go back into the preferences file and make sure I adjust the fonts correctly.

Bill
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: wmadan on January 11, 2005, 11:01:57 pm
I'm still getting really large fonts in icewm and nothing I've tried to edit the preferences file has helped.

I have:
* created  /home/.icewm/preferences
* uncommented the various lines with font names.
* read the online How to and FAQ at icewm.org.

I know I am missing something.

Bill
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: wmadan on January 11, 2005, 11:41:07 pm
Update  

Well, I read a post in smuelas' thread about there being two feeds and discovered that I had version .0.9-1 of the xqt-server installed. When I went to the feed at http://sourceforge.jp/feed-testing (http://sourceforge.jp/feed-testing) and installed version 1.9.0 of the xqt-server, everything worked!!

Now it's on to more interesting stuff ...  

Bill
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: jerrybme on January 12, 2005, 03:14:41 pm
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Update   

Well, I read a post in smuelas' thread about there being two feeds and discovered that I had version .0.9-1 of the xqt-server installed. When I went to the feed at http://sourceforge.jp/feed-testing (http://sourceforge.jp/feed-testing) and installed version 1.9.0 of the xqt-server, everything worked!!

Now it's on to more interesting stuff ... 

Bill
wmadan:
How are you getting along with keyboard mapping? I'm having a heck of a time. Even with keyhelper disabled my keys are all screwed up. To make it work it looks as if I'd need to use xev and remap most keys.

Have you found any secrets?

Cheers,
Jerry
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: wmadan on January 12, 2005, 04:04:07 pm
Jerry,

I haven't gotten to keymapping yet. Just getting the font issue resolved was a PITA and a time drainer. And come to find out that all that was needed was the testing version of xqt-server.

I'm sure I'll have something more to say about the keymapping.

Bill
Title: X/qt - Sl-c860 - Hatchetman's Wiki
Post by: jerrybme on January 13, 2005, 01:04:27 pm
I've had a go at key mapping. It was fairly simple once I figured out that those using the 6000 are using a standard Sharp ROM and so don't have keyhelper running. So before running Pocket Workstation
Code: [Select]
khctl disableand when you're done
Code: [Select]
khctl reloadThen I used smulas xmodmaprc with only a couple of tweaks to get slash working, so far the rest of the keys seem fine, but I haven't tested them all. Let me know if any other need to be changed.
Attached is my modified xmodmaprc for the clamshell Zs.

Cheers,
Jerry