[Bug 365815] [NEW] cannot type any letters into praat

[Saser]

Public bug reported:

ubuntu 9.04
praat 5.1.0-3

I cannot type letters into praat, and I have found how to solve this
problem according to the official site of praat.


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On Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mandriva, the static edition is sometimes reported
to have the problem that you cannot type any letters into it. When Praat
is started from the command line, there will be a long error message
starting with something like "Unknown keysym name: osfActivate".

The cause of the problem is that Motif expects that the file XKeysymDB
is located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/, but on these distributions XKeysymDB
is actually located in /usr/share/X11/.

If you can become root, you could type
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB into the file /etc/environment. Or
you could simply copy or link XKeysymDB to the expected location with

   cp /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/

or

   ln -s /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/

If you do any of these tricks, it will work for all users on your
computer. If you cannot become root, you could include

   export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB

in your .login or cshrc file.

** Affects: praat (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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cannot type any letters into praat
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