WinKey doesn't work in X.org?

epilogue epilogue at allstream.net
Wed Jun 30 09:43:37 PDT 2004


On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:59:29 +0200
Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:27:40PM -0400, epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:05:22 +0200
> > Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be> wrote:
> > 
> > > One difference I noticed, after switching to X.org, is that my WinKey
> > > doesn't work anymore.  I used it a lot for custom keybindings in
> > > IceWM.  
> > > 
> > > Any clue, anyone?  
> > 
> > by your question, it sounds as though you didn't set your custom key
> > bindings in XFree directly, rather you did it via IceWM.  
> > 
> > this is just a guess, but you might want to reinstall Ice so that it
> > compiles with the X.org libraries.    (anyone ?)
> 
> I just recompiled IceWM (with X.org installed), but it still doesn't
> work.  Maybe I should recompile other dependencies "between" IceWM and X
> too, because XFree86-libraries still shows up when I do a make clean in
> x11-wm/icewm: 
> 
> 	lori:/root # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/icewm/
> 	lori:icewm # make clean
> 	===>  Cleaning for esound-0.2.34
> 	===>  Cleaning for libaudiofile-0.2.6
> 	===>  Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.1_3
> 	===>  Cleaning for autoconf-2.57_1
> 	===>  Cleaning for gettext-0.13.1_1
> 	===>  Cleaning for glib-1.2.10_11
> 	===>  Cleaning for gmake-3.80_2
> 	===>  Cleaning for imake-4.3.0_2
> 	===>  Cleaning for libgnugetopt-1.2
> 	===>  Cleaning for libtool-1.3.5_2
> 	===>  Cleaning for libtool-1.5.6
> 	===>  Cleaning for m4-1.4_1
> 	===>  Cleaning for p5-gettext-1.01_4
> 	===>  Cleaning for pkgconfig-0.15.0_1
> 	===>  Cleaning for imlib-1.9.14_2
> 	===>  Cleaning for jpeg-6b_3
> 	===>  Cleaning for libungif-4.1.3
> 	===>  Cleaning for png-1.2.5_5
> 	===>  Cleaning for tiff-3.6.1_1
> 	===>  Cleaning for help2man-1.33.1
> 	===>  Cleaning for freetype2-2.1.7_3
> 	===>  Cleaning for expat-1.95.7
> 	===>  Cleaning for fontconfig-2.2.2,1
> 	===>  Cleaning for libXft-2.1.6
> 	===>  Cleaning for gtk-1.2.10_12
> 	===>  Cleaning for XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7
> 	===>  Cleaning for icewm-1.2.14
> 	lori:icewm # 
> 
> Any clue which one(s)?  

having not yet tinkered with x.org, i'm am not going to be able to provide
any concrete assistance.  hopefully, someone on the list will help (this
means 'you', list.  :).


> Thanks for the suggestion anyway.  
> 
> GH
> 


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