Re: New X packages

[Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>]

> * The X key mappings weren't quite what I was expecting.  I had to
>   add "xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace'" to my .xsession in
>   order for my backspace key to work.  If anybody knows what's 
>   going on there, I'd like to know.

Making the keyboard work right under X can be a nightmare.  At least at 
one point the Corel-shipped servers got this wrong as well.  The BackSpace/
Delete thing is an XF86 "feature", I suspect, and probably not worth losing 
sleep over.

> * The fbdev server only seems to work at 8 bits per pixel (256
>   colours).  I only tried to run it at 640x480.

To run it at other colour depths you need to first set the console into the 
appropriate mode and then run X with the -bpp option.  If you try and run a 
16-bit X on an 8-bit console, it will give up with `invalid argument' or some 
such.

p.