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[Daniel Duparc <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:59:01 +0200 (MET DST)
Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> > I just compiled the release 1.0.0.12 (Linux Mandrake 8.2):
> > I can't type any character, the screen remains blank! Any idea?
> 
> I have the impression that this problem is due to
> non-standard configurations of certain keyboards under X.
> Indeed, for certain configurations, certain modifier keys
> like "scroll lock" are considered to be "pressed" by default.
> 
> So please check this hypothesis by uncommenting line 62 in x_loop.cc.
> If I am right that pressing "a" would yield something like
> "Mod2-a" or "Mod5-a" instead of "a".
> 

Actually, the keyboard was entirely frozen.
I could not even quit cleanly.

When compiling x_loop.cc with line 62 on, I get nothing in the TeXmacs
screen but "Mod2-a" in the shell where TeXmacs was launched. 


> By the way, another problem has been noticed to me: with the static
> binary distribution on Mandrake 8.2, Nicolas Girard got the message
> 
> -----------------
> TeXmacs] Loading ecrm11 at 300 dpi
> Guile error] (misc-error #f "Unbound variable: %S" (eval-system) #f)
>            ] in file init-texmacs.scm
> 
> Fatal error: No active view in 'tm_server_rep::get_meta'
> -----------------
> 
> Someone else encountered a similar problem?

I didn't saw this one.

> 
> 

Best regards.
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Daniel Duparc <address@hidden>
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