Rc4 Experiences

[liberated]

Here are some experiences after trying out rc4 OZ/GPE a bit more. Generally I want to add to the praise of the hard work and overall result of the oz team. Keep it up! What I'm addressing here are the things that don't work so well (for me) as well as some questions. (before reporting anything to the bugtrackers I thought I'd mention the problems here, it might just be me missing something).

First the bugs:
abiword not starting. I get this error message:
The program 'abiword' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 1862 error_code 8 request_code 67 minor_code 0)

The strange thing is that it worked before I reflashed after a resizing my partions. Now it just crashes right after drawing the window.

can't login after logout, need hw-reboot. If I logout from GPE (which some setting changes require) it is impossible to log in again. The screen goes black with an X mouse cursor and then I'm bounced back to the login screen, which has a lower res this time. Only way out is to press the little button inside the battery cover.

clock is reset at reboot. After a reboot it's always May 22 again.


Questions:
no other vt's are started by default. This would be really nice, what should I do?

key remapping. I really need to be able to write the extra Swedish characters. Once there seems to have been a package called keymap-extensions, but that doesn't seem to be around anymore. Please help.
When on the topic of keys; what are the 'home' and 'menu' keys in GPE really supposed to do? (I would like the home-key to bring me to the desktop... perhaps the menu key could bring up the active app list?)

[Hrw]

Abiword - is you use 'clearlooks' theme in GPE then switch into other. We cannot fix it now as working version of theme req GTK 2.8.

Login problem looks strange - you can login after reboot?

Clock reset is something which we are trying to fix.

More VT is like any linux box: enable them in /etc/inittab

Keyboard: install keymap-locales and look how it is done.

[liberated]

Abiword - is you use 'clearlooks' theme in GPE then switch into other. We cannot fix it now as working version of theme req GTK 2.8.

That was it, thank you.

Login problem looks strange - you can login after reboot?

Yes.

More VT is like any linux box: enable them in /etc/inittab

And now I know that. All my desktop systems always enable 5-6 vt's by default so I never had to learn to do it myself.

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Where do I find this package? It doesn't seem to be in the ordinary feed.

[Hrw]

Added them into RC4 machine feeds.

ipkg install keymap-extension-de or keymap-extension-fi, look into /etc/ and create own keymap-extension-2.6-se.map file.

Do not forget to send it to us so we will add it into feed.

[liberated]

Added them into RC4 machine feeds.
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Great, thanks again. Is there a key-keycode map for the Cxx00s somewhere? What I'm looking for is  to find out which keycodes represent the kanji keys and the application keys. For my taste it's to slow to write åäö with Fn+somekey, so I like to use these keys for characters.

[Hrw]

look at /etc/keymap-2.6.map ;)

also use 'showkey'

[Antikx]

More VT is like any linux box: enable them in /etc/inittab

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you switch between them? Ctrl + Alt +FX is what i'm used to but doesn't work (on a USB keyboard). Do I have to kill the GPE DM first?

maybe it's my inittab:
...zoom to the end of file...
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2

I've tried with and without the 38400
 

[CoreDump]

More VT is like any linux box: enable them in /etc/inittab

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you switch between them? Ctrl + Alt +FX is what i'm used to but doesn't work (on a USB keyboard). Do I have to kill the GPE DM first?

maybe it's my inittab:
...zoom to the end of file...
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2

I've tried with and without the 38400
 
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You can switch VT's with Fn+[Left|Right]Arrow

And your VT2 would only be launched in runlevel 2, not the default runlevel 5