Keyboard problems, LC_ALL, TERM
Dear Debianspecialists,
I recently switched to Debian (2.1) from another distribution and now
encounter a few problems I did not have before. I checked all written
and online documentation, but could not find any help:
Using kbdconfig I installed de.latin1-nodeadkeys as my default
key map. It works fine, but some keys just do not work (that
is keys with the German umlauts ä,ö,ü,ß. Using this keys only
generates a beep, both on the console or in xterms under X11.
Do you have an idea, to get this solved (if I `cat' a file with
these characters, all is fine, xemacs also accepts the keys).
In my earlier Linux-distrib this was no problem.
When I open a ppp to my provider and telnet to another host (SunOS)
debian transmit `xterm-debian' as value for the TERM variable.
Where can I change this? (I need `xterm' or `vt100' , but I am too
lazy typing `setenv TERM vt100 everytime I telnet to that host).
Using the tcsh, I suddenly got the error message:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "ISO-8859-1",
LANG = "C"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
What went wrong here? (I added some `complete' commands to
/etc/csh.cshrc which seems to have caused this error. Strange
enough it comes, when I quit netscape...).
Apropos Netscape, my user is (for different reasons) not
in /home/joh but in /homes/joh. All works fine ($HOME is OK,
cd ~ is OK (tcsh), but if I start netscape4.07 (Debian package)
It starts searching for /home/joh/.netscape, eventhough
/etc/passwd says /homes/joh. Where do I have to correct this?
Any hints are appreciated!
Thank you very much
Johannes
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Johannes Heinecke heinecke@compling.hu-berlin.de
Computerlinguistik or: h0203kfw@rz.hu-berlin.de
Humboldt-Universit"at zu Berlin Tel: (030) 20192-553
10099 Berlin Fax: (030) 20196-729
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