Annoying win key problem

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Apr 28 21:18:26 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:48 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 2:35 PM -0400 4/27/06, Rickey Moore wrote:
> >On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 09:49 -0300, Marcelo Magno T Sales wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Found this http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/10/msg00340.html
> >> >
> >> > Add this to your xorg.conf Keyboard
> >> >
> >> > Option    "XkbOptions"    "altwin:meta_win"
> >
> >I decided to check this out as my Win keyboard had some annoying
> >behaviors. I "ls -la"-d /etc/X11 and found two dead links against the
> >old /usr/X11/bin/X and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkbd
> >Geeezz... X11 doesn't exist anymore (<sigh> now everydarn thing is
> >in /usr/bin) so fixing the kink for X to /usr/bin was easy enough, but
> >xkbd doesn't seem to exist with the locate command. rpm -q
> >--whatprovides xkbd comes up empty. Yeah, I know, yum upgrade is iffy
> >and I'm paying in spades for my sin. It might be a headsup for anyone
> >who did the upgrade path to check /etc/X11 and see if your links aren't
> >smushed. That might explain may strange problems. Now, what package
> >provides xkbd ? Gonna go google rite now. Ric
> 
> I upgraded FC3 to FC5 via the installer, and have a broken link /etc/X11/X
> -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg as well (there is no xkbd link).  Yum upgrade
> doesn't appear to be the issue.
Upgrade IS the issue.  Those links do not exist on a clean install of
FC5.


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