Re: results/problems (Re: [PATCH] Copy/Paste non-ascii characters)

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jay,

Jay Smith wrote:
> Harold,
>
> I have done the installation and I have several things to report. If 
> some of these are not for this list, please advise.  First of all, FYI, 
> when I did the install, Progeny would not respond at all so I used 
> Purdue.  In any case, I turned OFF everything and then turned on only 
> XFree xserve, scalable fonts, and xwinclip -- those of course caused 
> some other things to turn on automatically.
>
> 1) The main problem of copy/paste of non-ascii characters *within* Linux 
> Mozilla seems to be *fixed*.  Thanks!

That is good to know.  Thanks to Kensuke Matsuzaki.

> However....
>
> 2) I had my own modified script (with its own unique filename) that was 
> used to start X; I guess this was before startxdmcp.bat was available.  
> I copied my script into place. However, when I run MY script now, it 
> seems like the command (in MY script)
>    start XWin -nodecoration -clipboard -once -query jsa.jaysmith.com
> actually (also?) RUNS startxdmcp.bat
>
>    That is very odd and I am not sure what to do.  I had to modify 
> startxdmcp.bat to bring it in line with my script so the proper command 
> would get done.
>
>    I believe that startxdmcp.bat is getting run because the DOS box that 
> appears says so, identifying it by name -- even if *I* don't directly 
> run it.

You would have to send in your script and your copy of startxdmcp.bat 
and the exact command you are using to run your script in order for us 
to figure out what is going on.

> 3) I think that startxdmcp.bat may have an error in it.  The original 
> version of it has the command:
>
>       start XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% -nodecoration -lesspointer
>
>    and this causes an error in the DOS box about "too many paramaters". 
> I am certainly no expert, but I think that the "-query ...." should be 
> the LAST thing on the command line.  Anyway, when I made it so (like my 
> original script) it worked without putting out the error.

Nope.  The order of these parameters shouldn't matter.  You may be 
having some trouble if %REMOTE_HOST% is not properly defined or if it 
has characters in it that are getting interpreted by the DOS batch 
processor.

> 4) Generally X performance seems to be better.  It is very subjective, 
> but so good, so far.

Huh... no performance tweaks this time.  Must just feel faster :)

Harold