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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Friday, October 21, 2005 2:41:39 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:33:48 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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[GNOME] uses X resources (via xrdb(1)) to try to make older [X11] programs look like the current [GTK] theme. However, figuring out where these are set is very difficult. [GNOME]'s <tt>gnome-settings-daemon</tt> is responsible for loading default X resources files. In [Ubuntu] 5.10, these are the files in <tt>/etc/gnome/config/*</tt>. For example, the <tt>General.ad</tt> sets default foreground and background colours for all X apps, and this is what makes xterm(1) default to black-on-white. (In [Gentoo], these files are in <tt>/usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb</tt>.)
You can also manually override all these settings yourself via the <tt>xrdb</tt> program, but any time the <tt>gnome-settings-daemon</tt> reloads, the defaults will be reloaded.
+!!Can't change virtual consoles in X
+If you have done a <tt>dist-upgrade</tt> from Debian Sarge or Sid to Ubuntu 5.10, you may have noticed that you can no longer use Alt+Ctrl+~[1-6] to change virtual consoles.
+This is a consequence of the switchover from xfree to xorg - in Debian, <tt>/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc</tt> is a directory while in Breezy it is a file. When Xorg can't load this file, it doesn't know what to do with some key codes. Delete this directory and copy this file over from another Breezy computer, or re-install the "xkeyboard-config" package. To re-install, you'll probably need to do something like
+<verbatim>
+dpkg --force-depends --purge xkeyboard-config
+apt-get install xkeyboard-config
+</verbatim>
+(By using dpkg --force-depends instead of apt-get or aptitude you won't end up removing other X and ubuntu-desktop packages).
+Once this file is properly installed, "<tt>/etc/init.d/gdm restart</tt>" is needed to get X to use it.
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