[Xastir] no keyboard input

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Hurt, Jay wrote:

> I've just recently installed Slackware 9.1 and compiled and installed Xastir
> 1.3.0. No problems on the install, however within Xastir I am unable to
> enter any information with the keyboard. (The keyboard works fine within all
> other apps in X.) When I bring up a dialog box, the fields can be
> highlighted with the mouse pointer but I do not get a cursor. Any character
> I attempt to enter results in a console beep.  Any ideas?

Check your NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock keys.  Try turning all of
them off.

Are you running with a different language in Xastir?

What's your LANG setting?  ("env | grep LANG")

Are you sure you picked the correct keyboard type in your Slackware
configuration (if Slackware has a way to select that sort of thing)?

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