All, I appealed to some users on the debian-chinese-big5 list re: my questions about locales, etc ... mainly why, since I had reset all locale values to the default "C" value, I was still seeing character replacement in Netscape, etc (specifically, Chinese characters getting plopped in where other international/diacritically marked/etc characters were).
Info from Anthony Fok (see below), who maintains many Debian Chinese packages, led me to look in my ~./xsession file, where I found the line exec xa wmaker ... so apparently either the package xa+cv or cpanel (Debian Chinese Panel) placed the xa part of this line in .xsession. As it turns out now that I have stripped this out, I notice that I no longer have the problem in Mozilla (as well as many other programs) that interacting with the program -- entering text in the address line of the Mozilla browser, for example -- killed the program. I can even get some programs to run from menu that were not working before - the game bzflag for example. So it seems that this addition to the .xsession file was a major impediment. Seems like a bit of a bug to me! Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 1:30pm on Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Anthony Fok wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > When I /bin/su root and killall xa or xa+cv, I get the message "no process > > killed" from the system. However, when I killall cv, X goes away and I am > > back in pure console. > > > > Further, when I dpkg --purge xa+cv, this seems to 'wreck' my X > > configuration. startx dies ... I haven't looked into the details *yet,* I > > simply reinstalled xa+cv. > > If my guess is correct, check your ~/.xsession file. See if "xa" or "cv" > is loaded there. IIRC, xa is for communicating with xcin2.3 > (kind of like an Xcin Agent?), and cv is for Chinese Viewing (?), i.e. it > intercepts X's display and change the high-bit characters to Chinese no > matter what, kind of like TwinBridge, NanjiStar, Unionway etc. on Windows. > > Anthony > > -- > Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada > Debian GNU/Linux Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ > Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ > >
