also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.01.16.0739 +0100]: > i "borrowed" another keyboard, plugged it in, and replicated my > problem ... had a whole nother frustrated post composed, when i looked > at *every line* of my .xsession file, and found this line stuck in > there: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xset r rate 100 255 & hehe. i put that there. april/may 2001'ish though... > so the problem's solved. but i still am a little confused -- (1) > while this line appears about 4th or so in the whole file, i had been > calling the correct line *last* in the file for quite a few tries. > even though i had a line above it which made the rate wrong, calling > that line afterwards should have fixed it. not necessarily. xset seems to have a bug. for a while, i had to call it twice, once with 100 100, then 100 255 to get my effect. no other way would succeed. but hey, it's surely one of the oldest X tools, and noone really cares anymore i guess. > (2) in doing all this, i've noticed that /usr/bin/X11/ is symlinked to > /usr/X11R6/bin. why is this? it seems redundant. browse your system a little. you'll find many of those. /usr/X11R6/bin is the X11 Release 6 way of storing binaries that deal with X. but Debian sees these as binaries that are to remain in /usr/bin. so they met half way. i am actually surprised that the symlink isn't the other way around. btw: http://www.pathname.com/fhs will be able to give you a lot of background knowledge on why things are where they are. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck if god had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way.
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