cannot type any letters into praat
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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praat (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
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/
If you can become root, you could type XKEYSYMDB=
cp /usr/share/
or
ln -s /usr/share/
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=
in your .login or cshrc file.