From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 20:33:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16619 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:33:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost1.cac.washington.edu (mailhost1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16614 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:33:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from s5-25-199.student.washington.edu (S5-25-199.student.washington.edu [128.95.25.199]) by mailhost1.cac.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW96.12) with SMTP id UAA14659 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:32:59 -0800 Message-ID: <32ED815F.41C8@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:32:31 -0800 From: Jason Wells Organization: (soon to be) Highperformance.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: netscape package not found, xmodmap, and environment variables. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First I would like to report that /stand/sysinstall has some trouble installin the netscape 3.01 gold package. It reports something like "unable to fetch package upmtyscratch." I was able to do this manually so I require no response to this. I am running FreeBSd 2.1.5 on a P100. I run X using startx. The 'specific' reason for asking these 'general' questions about environment variables will became apparent in a bit. How does one set an environment variable? Is an environment variable established on a system wide or per user basis? Where does on set an environment variable for the user/system? Now to the specifics. The rest of this is mostly non-freebsd related. Any help offered will be appreciated. I can't get proper keyboard function in netscape. The supplied docs don't either don't address my situation or I don't understand what they are telling me. When installing netscape 3.01 the README docs tell me to put a file XKeysymDB into /usr/lib/X11/ which doesn't exist on the FreeBSD tree. I intuited that this file should be placed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. The keyboard still did not function properly for netscape after I did this. The netscape README also says that the use of the file XKeysymDB default location can be overidden by the "elusive :)" environment variable. Hence the reason for asking the above questions. What variable must I set and where is it? Will setting up netscape using XKeysymDB mess up the normal keyboard mapping? How does this relate to xmodmap? -- Thank you, Wannabe Sysadmin Jason Wells __________________________________________ / / / Highperformance.net / / The homeless domain / / "Pardon me sir, spare some bandwidth?" / /_________________________________________/