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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Sun 3/50 keyboard mode after server crash
Keywords: more information needed
Message-ID: <3183@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 20:58:47 GMT
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Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <462@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <456@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>>I have a bad habit of crashing my login session in such a way
>>that the kbd_mode command I use to put my Sun back into ASCII
>>mode may not get executed.
>
>I've received a couple of responses to my original note, and both
>of them said "use kbd_mode -a".  Maybe I should have been more
>explicit in the above, though I did say I use kbd_mode.

You still don't tell us how you are set up. While I don't know your
particulars, I do know that we had similar problems until we started
doing things as we are now, which is:

At login, or from a shell prompt, a script is invoked containing
the following:

xinit -C ...
kbd_mode -a
reset

This invokes the server with a console xtrem, which, when it goes away,
whether through a crash, exit or whatever, is succeeded by the kbd_mode
program by the shell. If you heretofore have started other X11 clients
right after your xinit (assuming you *use* xinit), put them in a file
called .xwindows in your home directory, which will get run as a script
when xinit runs.

-Miles