Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

["Ozzy Lash" <ozzy.lash@gmail.com>]

On 7/12/06, Art Edwards <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil> wrote:
> The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at the bottom is dead.
> The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in all
> text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general problem because the same is true for
> Fedora Core 5, but not for Fedora Core 4. I have compiled xmgrace from sources and
> I have the same problem. I have done some looking and this problem surfaced
> several years ago on a cygwin list.
> Just for the record, when I invoke xmgrace from the command line, I receive many errors like this:
>
> Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  osfHelp
>
> I get exactly the same set from ddd. Again, this is true for AMD64 for both Debian and for Fedora Core 5.
>
>
> Art Edwards

I did a google search for "Warning: String to TranslationTable
conversion encountered errors" and found this link:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82087

With the following suggestion:
The answer is:

export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB


This is also needed to get the grace package to work right on Breezy, BTW.


Hope this helps