Re: Why? Warning: Actions not found: delete-next-character
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- Subject: [mg61790] Re: Why? Warning: Actions not found: delete-next-character
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:43:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Konstantin L Kouptsov wrote: [TOP POSTING CORRECTED BELOW] > Steven T. Hatton wrote: >> http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/intel/deletenext51.html >> This happened to me after I rebuild my home directory. This is with >> Mathematica 5.2 and SuSE Linux 10.0. The fix - after a couple incorrect >> attempts - was to run xrdb .Xdefaults after retreiving the old >> .Xdefaults. >> >> I use many programs on Linux. I write my own programs on Linux. I >> download >> sourcecode and compile other people's programs on Linux. Mathematica is >> the _only_ program with these particular problems. Can anybody explain >> why >> this happens? Is it just due to the fact that motif is ancient? > > Which window manager do you use? I had noticed in the past that > Microsoft-like window managers (Gnome, KDE) http://www.lyx.org/about/intro.php "LyX is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix platforms. It is called a "document processor", because unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. LyX automates formatting according to predefined rule sets, yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents. LyX produces high quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an open source, industrial strength typesetting engine, in the background. .... Special thanks should go to Matthias Ettrich who started it all." http://people.kde.org/ "After I founded the [KDE] project, I was busy with the stuff nobody else wanted to do, like the terminal emulation, the window manager, the desktop panel, session management..... Luckily these things changed while the project evolved. Currently I'm mostly working on the libraries (DCOP), the new window manager kwin and on improving Qt according to the wishes of the KDE Team." > tend to disregard > .Xresources/.Xdefaults file. No fault from Mathematica's side. Thanks, that was the hint I needed. Mathematica is expecting the Xrdb to be initialized by XDM, but XDM isn't running. If I initialize it with a call to xrdb in the Mathematica startup script, it works with an empty .Xdefaults, and no /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XMathematica file. I'm really not sure what changed from the previous configuration because I was not explicitly calling xrdb in my bin/mma, which I now do. Now, back to creating structured documents using Mathematica with XML... -- "Philosophy is written in this grand book, The Universe. ... But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language... in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, ...; without which wanders about in a dark labyrinth." The Lion of Gaul