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  • Subject: Re: [BL] GTK and locale problem (related to Seamonkey)
  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:08:41 +0000 (UTC)

Steven, have you attempted or do you plan to get Seamonkey working in BL2? If not, I may ask The Answer Gang for help with this. Or install Slackware 9.1 and use that to browse instead of BL or chrooted SW11.

Can I upgrade libX11 by just changing the libraries in /usr/X11/lib to those from Slackware 9.1 to match the SW91 glibc 2.3.2 in case this is some i18n (UTF?) incompatibility problem and glibc has to match libX? (Do you understand what is going on here?). I could extract via SDF and download under 1MB of files if I replaced only libX11, libXext and libXi, used by Seamonkey.

Slackware 11 does work but it requires glibc 2.3.6, and precompiled Seamonkey only 2.3.2.

I don't want the entire enormous Xfree 4.3.0 package (which replaced xlibg.tgz) with xdm, xkb (though this might get a softphone working), many pages of bin, icons, locale....

I might copy BL2 to another partition and experiment on it. Any other ideas?

Sindi Keesan

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

When I try to run Seamonkey 1.1.15 precompiled for GTK1, with some
libraries dependent on glibc 2.3.2, AFTER upgrading to glibc 2.3.2 from
Slackware 9.1, I get the following two lines of GDK warnings about locale,
and the program will not load.

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers

I have all the dependencies, including the libraries that came with
seamonkey and are pointed at by the wrapper script.

Someone suggested reinstalling xlibs.
locale set to C means US English which is the 'common' locale.

I am using an OLD Xlib (xlibs - X libraries) from Slackware 7.1 and I
have no idea whether i18n module is enabled. How do I determine if a
version of xlibs has it enabled, whatever it is? Something related to
UTF-8?


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After update glibc to 2.4-1, when run gtk aplications
like xmms, I give something like this:
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
and I have not right locale for this apps.
Greetings,
Miroslaw


Comment by [37]Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 26 May 2006, 02:11 GMT-4
The problem is in the new Xlib that has the i18n module enabled. Somehow
locales don't work with this one anymore. Will see what a version without i18n
module loader does.

Comment by [38]AqD (aquila_deus) - Friday, 26 May 2006, 12:20 GMT-4
rebuild libx11 with --disable-loadable-i18n (the default option) will solve
the problem.
There are at least two problems with --enable-loadable-i18n:
1.libx11 will try to load /usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xlibi18n.so.2, which
is
actually located at /usr/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlibi18n.so.2
2.With *.UTF-8 locale, it will try to load
/usr/lib/X11/locale/common/xlcUTF-8.so.2, which doesn't exist at all. There is
another file named
xlcUTF8Loader.so - it could be loaded fine but will throw the same error
"locale not supported..".
If you use ISO-9660-1 locale, symbol link /usr/lib/X11/locale/common to
lib/common will work.

Comment by [39]Miroslaw Czachor (forest76) - Friday, 26 May 2006, 14:35
GMT-4
Thank's after rebulid gtk aplications works fine
Greetings,
Miroslaw

Sindi Keesan

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