I've just completed (I think) my first fresh installation of Fedora Core 5 and made some discoveries that you might want to note. The xorg project has reorganized things and screwed up xterm a bit. 1) The system-wide default initialization files are now in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults, instead of /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. However, the xterm man page still refers to the old wrong location. 2) As delivered, xterm can no longer display colors - only black & white. However, an updated version fixes this. The xterm man page says: If your display supports color, use this *customization: -color in your .Xdefaults file to automatically turn on color in xterm and similar applications. This seems inaccurate; the updated version displays color without it, as xterm always has. 3) Double-clicking to select a word works stupidly - a word is defined to be a contiguous string of alphanumerics, so you cannot easily select a filename that includes a dot, or a complete URL. I finally tracked down the cause of this degradation. A crucial line in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm has been commented out, thusly: ! Here is a pattern that is useful for double-clicking on a URL: !*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37-38:48,43-47:48,58:48,61:48,63-64:48,126:48 If the charClass line is uncommented, double-clicking works properly again. This cryptic line defines certain other punctuation marks to be equivalent to alphanumerics so that, in particular, a full URL will be selected, but excluding the <> brackets that may enclose it. Filenames containing punctuation marks can be easily selected. Why someone chose to comment out this crucial definition in FC5 is unfathomable. I hope this little diatribe will save others the frustration of searching for this single ! that is so unfortunately added. The installer has lost the ability to configure my ancient Riva128 video card so a graphical install wasn't possible and I had to revert to a text install. Afterward, system-config-display was also unable to configure it. I was able to get the X server started only by retrieving an old xorg.conf from the backup. For some incomprehensible reason, sound will no longer work unless I forcibly load the appropriate sound module. I've had to put this line into /etc/rc.d/rc.local: modprobe snd-sbawe This module should load automatically. It used to. This line in /etc/modprobe.conf should be sufficient: alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe I understand that Fedora Core is the bleeding edge, but I would have hoped for progress *without* quite so much regression. -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC dad@xxxxxxxx www.datix.us
