Re: german keyboard layout / usbmouse / ppp / gnome / gcj questions

[Otto <otto@poellath.org>]

hi,

>> how do I configure X to use german keyboard layout?
>> my XF86Config (I'm using the default potato X server) currently reads
>> 
>> Protocol      "Standard"
>> XkbLayout     "de"
>> XkbVariant    "nodeadkeys"
>> XkbModel      "macintosh"
>> XkbRules      "xfree86"
>> 
>> but this didn't help at all..
> 
> The only suggestion I can give here is to try "de_DE" instead of just "de".

that did't work either.. isn't anyone using a german keyboard out there?


>> how do I configure X to use both the trackpad and my USB mouse as input
>> devive? my XF86Config says
>> 
>> Device "/dev/mouse"
>> 
>> and /dev/mouse is a symblic link to /dev/adbmouse. I tried changing the link
>> to /dev/usbmouse, but that left me with no mouse or trackpad at all..
>> 
>> this is some new input layer stuff, right?
> 
> Possible. Try /dev/input/mice .

I'd love to give it a try, but unfortunately, the new input layer isn't in
potato, so I /dev/input/mice doesn't exist.
is there a debian package to create it?


>> I set up ppp with pppconfig (according to
>> http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/debian/chapter/ch11_04.html) and ppp connects
>> fine, but for some reason I can't ping or lynx any damn server..
> 
> Have you configured it to set the default route? Use 'route -n' to see if
> there is a default route (0.0.0.0 at the beginning) with the peer IP as
> gateway.

here's what route -n gives me, I'm not sure if that's correct - the peer IP
isn't mentioned as gateway, but destination..

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref   Use Iface
134.95.89.129   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0


>> whenever I log in to a gnome session, windows open in the left upper corner
>> of my screen, with the title bar cut off by the screen boundaries, so I
>> can't move them. in debian sessions, I'm happily using icewm.. so how do I
>> get gnome to use it, too?
> 
> Make sure you have the icewm-gnome package installed. If that doesn't help,
> try the Window Manager section in the GNOME control center.

ok, I'll give this a try soon.

thanks,
-otto.