[SUMMARY]: X Display

From: Jean-Loup Risler <Jean-Loup.Risler_at_genetique.uvsq.fr>
Date: Thu, 16 May 96 16:59:30 +0200

Dear Gurus,

Thanks to all those who cared to answer.

1) My first question was: "I can't succeed in opening more than one
X-session
   on my station. Why?"

  The simplest answer is: type "xhost +my_host" in the FIRST window before
  opening a second one.
  Stupid as I am, I typed the stuff AFTER having opened the second window...

  Other suggested solutions:

   - type "/usr/bin/X11/xhost +my_host"
   - add "xhost +my_host" in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
   - ditto /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
   - ditto $HOME/.xsession
   - add my_host in the "Security..." option of the Session manager
   - copy .Xauthority from the first login

2) My second question was related to exmh. With my keyboard (PC like) the
   Backspace (<--) key sent "\x08" rather than deleting a character.

   I knew I had to set the key binding for "backspace" in "Bindings ...
   simple editor", as many answers recommanded. The current binding was
   <Delete>. However, changing the binding to <Key-Backspace> did not
   work and produced an error message.
   I therefore read more carefully the exmh manual and got the binding of
   the "backspace key":
   a) type "wish" (tcl/tk command) which opens an empty window
   b) type litterally "bind . <Any-Key> {puts stdout "keysym=%K letter=%A"}
   c) click in the small window
   d) type the backspace key.
      the answer is "binding=BackSpace"

  So what? There is an uppercase S in "BackSpace" ....

  I therefore made the binding in exmh "backspace <Key-BackSpace>" with an
  uppercase S, which solved my problem....

My thanks to:

        Christophe Colle <colle_at_krtkg1.rug.ac.be>
        munhoven_at_olive.msm.ulg.ac.be (Serge Munhoven)
        Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_nersc.gov>
        alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow)
        sweber_at_servecom.picker.com
        Gernot M. Fuchs <gfuchs_at_golay.med.unc.edu
        Sean Watson <swatson_at_tuolumne.lib.csubak.edu>
        Mahendra Vallabh (Mike) <mike_at_phys.waikato.ac.nz>
        bjw_at_anpnt22.anp.ansto.gov.au (WHITTAKER, Bruce J)
        Murat Balci <balci_at_bornova.ege.edu.tr>
        olle_at_cb.uu.se (Olle Eriksson)
        Peter Stern <peter_at_wiscpa.weizmann.ac.il>

Jean-Loup

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