Re: [Bug-xnee] Re: gnee and pnee both crashed

[James Harkins]

At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:47:18 -0500,
William Bader wrote:
> "yum intall" on Fedora calculates the dependencies and asks you if you want 
> to install them also.
> Maybe with Ubuntu you have to have to install all of them at once.
> Try adding all of the dev packages that it listed to the command line and 
> installing again.
> You will need those packages and maybe a few more.

I finally managed to install libgtk2.0-dev and built the cvs version[1] 
successfully.

Unfortunately, cnee is not correctly handling the use case that I want.

To work around a limitation in virtual box, periodically I need to reset the 
keyboard to the default configuration (where normally I've moved the modifier 
keys using xmodmap). I found that going to keyboard preferences, changing one 
of the options in Layouts > Options..., then changing it back will reset the 
modifier mappings. (Maybe there's a way to do it at the command line, but I'm 
no xmodmap expert and this is something that, it seems, absolutely nobody knows 
anything about on any Linux forums. Believe me, I've asked, and the question 
always goes ignored.)

So I recorded this sequence in cnee.

1. Right click on the keyboard layout name in the panel > Keyboard preferences.

2. Click on Layouts.

3. Click on Options.

4. Expand the first option ("Adding Esperanto circumflexes (supersigno)") and 
change it to the second radio button.

5. Click Close.

6. Click Options again, expand the first option and change it back to the first 
("Default") radio button.

7. Close, then close keyboard preferences.

8. Stop recording.

When I play back, it works perfectly until #4. As soon as it goes to the second 
radio button, cnee stops playing.

Bug? "Feature"?

James

[1] Got an email from the ubuntu bug reporter suggesting another source version.

Subject: [Bug 706794] Re: gnee/pnee packages for Ubuntu lucid crash on record
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:01:58 -0000

There were a lot of things happening with some releases of X.org which
caused Xnee to malfunction. Instead of spending time on fixing an old
Xnee (3.02 is rather old, we're currently planning 3.08).

Can you test this non official release:

http://itupw056.itu.chalmers.se/xnee/nightly-dists/xnee-cvs-20110125.tar.gz

which is basically what make 3.08 is going to contain.


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