Re: Kconsole

[Rick Van Ruth <rick@albatross.dyndns.org>]

Thanks Andreas, this has worked in the interim.

Strange how one gets used to using certain keys, I'm lost without those 
home/end keys, they are like an instinctual thing when using the console.

On Sat,  3 Mar 2001 22:35, Andreas Trottmann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:11:56PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > > After the later update to KDE2.1 in Debian unstable it appears in the
> > > "Settings" for Kconsole that the "Keyboard" settings for 'xterm (xfree
> > > 3x)' and 'xterm (xfree 4x)' have not only swapped places but they both
> > > now do the same thing which is the xfree 4x style of keyboard.
> >
> > that's very strange as I took the old default (x4) and created a new
> > Keytab file for it and took the old X3 Keytab and copied it to
> > default...weird that they would be the same..unless they were the same to
> > begin with.
>
> They are not the same, but something's broken anyway :->
>
> Ivan: Apparently you did the following between the last two released
> versions of konsole:
>
>  * make default.Keytab xfree4.keytab
>  * make x11r5.keytab default.Keytab
>
> Now, this is a bit confusing, because it seems that default.Keytab is
> a config file just like the *.keytab files, is loaded dynamically, and
> can thus be changed by the system administrator.
> But, this turns out not to be the case: default.Keytab contains
>
> # This file is used to create the buildin keyboard table.
> # It is included for reference purpose with the *.keytab
> # files that are loaded dynamically.
> #
> # Modifying it does not have any effect (unless you
> # derive the default.keytab.h and recompile konsole).
>
> So, apparently it seems that you have moved the files around, but not
> "derived the default.keytab.h" (whatever that means :-/ ) before
> building the konsole deb.
>
> I'm downloading the source right now and I'll see whether I can give you
> further assistance on what to do to make konsole's keys work well.
>
>
> Everybody: A quick workaround to make your current konsole binaries
> work, is to (as root, and note the spelling of Keytab vs. keytab)
>
> cd /usr/share/apps/konsole/
> cp default.Keytab working.keytab
>
> then (as ordinary user) start a new konsole, select the *second* entry
> "xterm (XFree 3.x.x)" in the keyboard configuration menu, and save your
> settings. Et voilà: your home/end keys will work again ;)
>
> You will probably have to rechange and resave your settings when there
> will be fixed packages, though.

-- 
Cheers,

	Rick