XFree86 and locales

XFree86 and locales

[Jorge R . Csapo]

Hi all,

I have a Slackware 8.0 box in which I had to downgrade XFree to 3.6, because
4.0.1 doesn t support very well my cl-gd5434 video card. When I first installed
3.6, everything worked fine. Then I had to reboot and since then whenever I
start X (with gnome+enlightenment) I get multiple messages like this:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not suported by Xlib, locale set to C
Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers

I checked that I do have the XFree locales installed.

The symptom I get is that X doesn t seem to have the fonts I need to use
Portuguese accents. I don t really know if that is related to the locale
problem, but both things started at the same time.

The way I usually configure accents is, I load the  us-acentos.map.gz  and
then disable Xkb in XFree86. I have been using that in a number of systems
for over a year without a problem.

Can anybody help?

TIA

-- 
Jorge R. Csapo

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Re: XFree86 and locales - SOLVED

[Jorge R . Csapo]

OK, this is what I did:

1. reinstall the xbin tarball
2. run X as root
3. close X
4. login as user
5. run X

This is black magic, I know, and at this point I don't care to understand what
happened. I'm just glad my system is working again.

Why am I posting an answer to my own question, do you ask? Because it will
end up in archives and next time when I search for a solution to this problem
again I will find it :)

Jorge

assim falou Jorge R . Csapo (em 20/05/2002):
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Slackware 8.0 box in which I had to downgrade XFree to 3.6, because
> 4.0.1 doesn t support very well my cl-gd5434 video card. When I first installed
> 3.6, everything worked fine. Then I had to reboot and since then whenever I
> start X (with gnome+enlightenment) I get multiple messages like this:
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not suported by Xlib, locale set to C
> Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
> 
> I checked that I do have the XFree locales installed.
> 
> The symptom I get is that X doesn t seem to have the fonts I need to use
> Portuguese accents. I don t really know if that is related to the locale
> problem, but both things started at the same time.
> 
> The way I usually configure accents is, I load the  us-acentos.map.gz  and
> then disable Xkb in XFree86. I have been using that in a number of systems
> for over a year without a problem.
> 
> Can anybody help?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> Jorge R. Csapo
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
>     /"\
>     \ /ÿ CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML
>      Xÿÿ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
>     / \
> --------------------------------------------------
> Jorge R. Csapo
> http://www.completo.com.br/~jorge
> ===========================================
> With a PC, I always felt limited
> by the software available.
> On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. 
> --Peter J. Schoenster
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-- 
Jorge R. Csapo

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     Xÿÿ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
    / \
--------------------------------------------------
Jorge R. Csapo
http://www.completo.com.br/~jorge
===========================================
With a PC, I always felt limited
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On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. 
--Peter J. Schoenster
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