Re: xdm, X, fvwm2 : newbie questions
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Gabor Kontur wrote:
> Is there a way to influence the typematic delay of the keyboard? Characters
> start to duplicate themselves when i keep a key pressed longer than about
> one fifth of a second.
#!/bin/sh
# mS
DELAY=500
# cps
REPEAT=15
/sbin/kbdrate -r $REPEAT -d $DELAY
exit 0
Put a file like that into /etc/rc.boot
> When i start ae in an xterm window i cannot use the arrow keys to scroll.
Annoying, isn't it. Just use a VC instead.
> the script /etc/init.d/gpm produced the following message at startup:
> gpm -m help -t ps2 -r help/usr/sbin/gpm: help: No such file or directory
> My mouse is indeed PS2 and at startup i get this message as well:
> PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected. driver installed
> The mouse works fine with X so i simply scratched the useless call to
> /etc/init.d/gpm.
Overcleaning. So, there was an error message. At best, if you make
changes to these sorts of configuration files, you'll make a lot of work
for yourself when you upgrade, because the upgrade scripts will detect
these changes and think the files must be preserved. At worst, you could
break the system.
> The question is: how do i adjust the responsiveness of the mouse which is
> rather slow at the moment ( meaning that the distances the mouse travels on
> my mouse pad are too large).
My /etc/gpm.conf has (through gpmconfig)
device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=30
type=ps2
append="-R"
The -R means, of course, that I have
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
in /etc/X11/XF86Config
> So i reverted to using twm for a while but now i use fvwm2.
> With that i have one major problem: At the initial login (as root) it does
> not execute the profile scripts as for a login shell but rather another
> script (probably the one that ends with a rc).
What gets called, and when, is quite complicated. I stick most stuff in
.bachrc and call it from .bash_profile, others use links to achieve
similar ends.
> When i start xterm (which is not started automatically) i can login just
> fine as another user but not as root. It says "incorrect login" or
> something to that effect.
> What might be the cause of this problem ?
I'm not quite sure when you mean that you have to login, but two thoughts:
does your root password contain any funny characters that might be
misplaced because of your keyboard selection; I've yet to find how to
correct typos when typing a password into su.
> I thought i´d mention though that i had a crash. Now if this was windows
> 95, i´d say that´s absolutely normal, but this really worries me. It
> started with one of my terminals freezing up ( it was displaying a manual
> page).
If and when a VC freezes on me, I just switch to another VC and kill the
first. init will respawn it.
> So i decided to shut down quickly but i wasn´t quick enough because
> the terminal i ran shutdown from froze up during shutdown .
Well, it would, wouldn't it? I don't know the order in which shutdown
works, but I assume things must stop working!
> Finally i had to press the reset button.
The best way to shut down in an orderly fashion is Ctrl-Alt-Del. About the
only thing you lose is updating .bash_history for logged-in sessions.
> I wasn´t really doing anything unusual, except maybe restarting xdm many
> times over (to figure out how it works) (with twm) .
Well X can freeze things, particularly if it captures all your keystrokes
etc. though some people use joystick tricks. I just log in through the
network (or an old vt220 at home) and kill X. Very little actually stops
linux.
Cheers,
--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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