re tvtwm xsetroot x r and sparc keyboard in article mailqueue oak shu ac uk d haywood sheffield hallam ac uk writes hi environment sun sparc sunos x r path level my x process is started by xdm okay that s good i m typing this from exactly the same setup us unix layout keyboard i did install the sunkbd patch though i i want to setup the backgroud root window of the tvtwm display to display the escherknot etc grey is a very boring colour to work on make sure you re using ssetroot which comes with tvtwm when tvtwm starts up it nukes the existing root window use an ssetroot after tvtwm starts up you could spawn off a sleep ssetroot you can also use virtualdesktopbackgroundpixmap filename or just virtualdesktopbackground if you just want another color besides grey ii when i open an xterm on the sparc not all of the keys are recognised and some keys on the keyboard are not sending the correct characters did you install the sunkbd patch it s in the contrib directory on export all the keys on my keyboard send events properly except the following the end pageup pagedown on the key cluster aren t recognized even the compose key works though i can t seem to get the composed characters in an xterm to get passed anyone have a fix for the last two dave system administrator penn state population research institute dog dianetics woof woof woof page kibo
