Re: [xmonad] xmonad on solaris, input issue

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Christian Walther wrote:

Hello Stephan,

2010/1/22 Stephan Schulz :

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Hello all!

I've succeeded in building xmonad 0.9.1 on a sparc box with Solaris 10 and GHC 6.10.4 (bootstrapped with the 6.8.3 binary sparc package). The only issue is, that it doesn't recognize it's metakey. So I can't open a terminal or quit it with Meta+Shift+Q. It has definitely something to do with the build process as remotely starting xmonad on a linux box does work flawless (remotely as in "ssh -X" to it). Has anyone suggestions were I should start to check for errors?

I'm using xmonad 0.9.1 on Solaris 10/Sparc, too, and don't have any issues with it. Is it possible that there is a mismatch between the modifier you configured in your xmonad.hs and the corresponding key? xmodmap should tell you.

I'm using the standard modifier as I have no ~/.xmonad directory (neither on the linux box nor the solaris box). The output of xmodmap -pm is this: xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40) mod2 Mode_switch (0x71) mod3 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod4 Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74) mod5 Seems ok to me... Any other ideas what I can try? kind regards, Stephan -- A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell