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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problems with keyboard after server crash
Keywords: X11, crash (kbd_mode)
Message-ID: <3792@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 16:51:42 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
Lines: 62

In article <13862@duke.cs.duke.edu> ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley) writes:
-I'm trying to debug an application which occasionally crashes,
-taking the server with it. When this happens, the keyboard is
-left in an unuseable state. I've tried kbd_mode -a: 
   (list of nonworking attempts to fix was here)
-Has anyone seen this behaviour? How can I gracefully reset my
-keyboard?
-
-Sun 3/280 running SunOs 3.5
-X11R3, patches 1-8, purdue 2.0 speedups, gcc 1.33

Two possibilities:

login as yourself or rrot from elsewhere; run kbd_mode -a with
std<in, out & err> all going to the keyboard device. Seems like this
used to work when we tried it.

What we do now is: run a script that brings up X11; in this script we
set an environment variable (eg, XWINDOWS_UP); then we run xinit to
bring up a CONSOLE xterm. Our .cshrc files contain
the following code:

if ($?XWINDOWS_UP) then
	unsetenv XWINDOWS_UP
	source .xwindows
endif

The above code should get run only the 1 time (that the xinit is run, starting
the console xterm).

The .xwindows file looks something like:

setenv xterm
set T = "`hostname` : `whoami` - `echo $cwd`"
if (-f ~meo/.4term_hist) then
        source ~meo/.4term_hist
endif
xset m 4 2 
xset s noblank 
xset s 600 30 
xterm -title "$T" -fn a14 -geometry 80x56+5+5 -rw -s &
xterm -title "$T" -fn a14 -geometry 80x36+575+5 -rw -s &
xclock -chime -geometry 110x110+1035+785 -rv &
if (! $?remote) then
        xmodmap -e "keycode 0x39 = Delete KP_Decimal"
        xmodmap -e "keycode 0x65 = Insert KP_0"
endif
exit
#
#       The xmodmaps should be used ONLY on Sun 386i's running Sun's X11R2.
#
#       User cust. stuff, such as xsetroot, etc, should also go in here

notes:
1) xterm is used in the .cshrc file to determine when to set the term
   variable to xterm (vs when you might be using real terminals, the
   Sun console, etc).
2) remote is set when coming in from an X11 display terminal, so that
   the Sun modmaps won't happen.


-Miles (gatech!stiatl!meo)