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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:36:37
Message-Id: 200607070025.14176.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters by Richard Fish
1 On Thursday 06 July 2006 18:06, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > On 7/6/06, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Since upgrading to 7.0-r1 from 6.8 I've lost a few characters.
4 > > I use xmodmap to get accented and other characters but four of
5 > > those characers are now missing:
6 > >
7 > > leftarrow, rightarrow, uparrow and downarrow.
8 > >
9 > > When typed they just show up as rectangles. Anyone know how to
10 > > fix this?
11 >
12 > Do the correct events appear in xev? If so, then maybe you are
13 > just missing the right font....
14 >
15 Yes they do. I map the missing characters to AltGr+y, AltGr+[,
16 AltGr+] and Shift+AltGr+[ ... which produces:
17 ←↑→↓
18
19 I thought of fonts too, but I already have most of the fonts in
20 portage - more than I had in xorg-6.8 (when it worked).
21
22 --
23 Peter
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25 Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.1-r1. kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r1.
26 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64. gcc(GCC): 3.4.6.
27 KDE: 3.5.2. Qt: 3.3.6.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>