On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Jukka Salmi wrote:
There's a problem I'm having with -current; I wonder if it's related to the "can't exit" part of this.Rafal Boni --> port-i386 (2009-09-21 17:22:13 -0400):On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:44:35PM -0700, Soren Jacobsen wrote:On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jukka Salmi wrote:However, I removed the directory in question and extracted the set again, but the screen still goes black as soon as Xorg is running.Sadly, this is expected. See PR xsrc/41870. I am very tempted to change our X server back to the old behavior of installing a default cursor immediately and painting the background to that horriblehorrible eye-killing pattern. Much as I hate that default background,black with no cursor is all kinds of wrong.Yeah, too many people's reaction to the black screeen w/no cursor has been "OMG, it's fuxored" (including mine, even now occasionally). Weshould go back to the damn grey stipled screen; it's not like it can'tbe changed by whatever eye-candy is running on top of X as soon as it starts.I don't think that was the problem I was seeing. Unless a side effect is that you're not able to shut down the X server anymore... ;-) With the 1.6.3 server, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace did not work, only sending aSIGKILL to the server (by a user logged in over the network) worked, butleft the screen garbled until the system was restarted. And blindly typing `shutdown -r now' or pressing the power button to trigger a shutdown by powerd(8) did not work as well.In the meantime I've extracted the old sets to make Xorg (server 1.4.2)is usable again...
For some reason, when I fire up recent versions of X, it doesn't seem to know the names of any keys. This means that assorted keyboard accelerators in my window manager (pkgsrc/wm/fvwm) don't work. xmodmap seems to fail to destroy any concept of the caps lock key's existence, I believe because I can't name it. If, though, I run xmodmap manually and do an fvwm Restart, all is happy at that level.
No, I don't know why. I'm getting ready to send-pr on this and a few other issues...
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