Re: xterm hanging

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

pol <linux_milano@yahoo.it> wrote:
> Launching /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm from a terminal yields the following lines:

odd - that moved to /usr/bin last year.
Is this from the updated Debian package?

>   Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name:  XF86Paste
>   Warning: ... found while parsing '<KeyPress>       
> XF86Paste:insert-selection(SELECT, CUT_BUFFER0) '
>   Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors

> xterm window cannot accept any input. Any ideas?

oops - see

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422521

It's an optional compile-time feature, so the packager could disable it.
I'll look into a less failure-prone way to supply the feature...

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