xa+cv, mozilla instabillity et al: SOLVED?
All,
I appealed to some users on the debian-chinese-big5 list re: my questions
about locales, etc ... mainly why, since I had reset all locale values to
the default "C" value, I was still seeing character replacement in
Netscape, etc (specifically, Chinese characters getting plopped in where
other international/diacritically marked/etc characters were).
Info from Anthony Fok (see below), who maintains many Debian Chinese
packages, led me to look in my ~./xsession file, where I found the line
exec xa wmaker
... so apparently either the package xa+cv or cpanel (Debian Chinese
Panel) placed the xa part of this line in .xsession. As it turns out now
that I have stripped this out, I notice that I no longer have the problem
in Mozilla (as well as many other programs) that interacting with the
program -- entering text in the address line of the Mozilla browser, for
example -- killed the program.
I can even get some programs to run from menu that were not working before
- the game bzflag for example.
So it seems that this addition to the .xsession file was a major
impediment. Seems like a bit of a bug to me!
Glenn Becker
Online Producer, Community
SCIFI.COM
At 1:30pm on Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote:
> > When I /bin/su root and killall xa or xa+cv, I get the message "no process
> > killed" from the system. However, when I killall cv, X goes away and I am
> > back in pure console.
> >
> > Further, when I dpkg --purge xa+cv, this seems to 'wreck' my X
> > configuration. startx dies ... I haven't looked into the details *yet,* I
> > simply reinstalled xa+cv.
>
> If my guess is correct, check your ~/.xsession file. See if "xa" or "cv"
> is loaded there. IIRC, xa is for communicating with xcin2.3
> (kind of like an Xcin Agent?), and cv is for Chinese Viewing (?), i.e. it
> intercepts X's display and change the high-bit characters to Chinese no
> matter what, kind of like TwinBridge, NanjiStar, Unionway etc. on Windows.
>
> Anthony
>
> --
> Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering
> foka@ualberta.ca, foka@debian.org University of Alberta, Canada
> Debian GNU/Linux Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/
> Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/
>
>
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