Stuff

// *** FIXME
//    key <LSGT> {      [ quoteleft,    asciitilde      ]       };
//    key <AE01> {      [         1,    exclam          ],
//                      [exclamdown,    slash           ]       };
//    key <AE02> {      [         2,    at              ],
//                      [ trademark,    eth             ]       };
//    key <AE03> {      [         3,    numbersign      ],
//                      [ sterling                      ]       };
//    key <AE04> {      [         4,    dollar          ],
//                      [      cent                     ]       };
//    key <AE05> {      [         5,    percent         ],
//                      [  infinity                     ]       };
//    key <AE06> {      [         6,    asciicircum     ],
//                      [ section                       ]       };
//    key <AE07> {      [         7,    ampersand       ],
//                      [ paragraph                     ]       };
//    key <AE08> {      [         8,    asterisk        ],
//                      [periodcentered                 ]       };
//    key <AE09> {      [         9,    parenleft       ],
//                      [ordfeminine                    ]       };
//    key <AE12> {      [     equal,    plus            ],
//                      [  notequal,    plusminus       ]       };
//    key <AD01> {      [         q,    Q               ],
[...]
//    key <RALT> {      [ Mode_switch,  Multi_key       ]       };
//    modifier_map Mod3   { Mode_switch };

This is silly. Especially the lower two lines.

It appears in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/us, and gave me a bad keyboard mapping which I had to work with for two days. Didn't file a bug yet, need to find out what the correct FIXME would be, but it'll be there. Believe me.

The mac works for the most part. Except for three slight bits, everything kinda worked out of the box.

Obviously, there's the keyboard mapping. I have a /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/wouter which deviates a bit from standard X11 mappings (who needs KP_Enter on that key? Oh boy), and I plan to increase that deviation, but that's it.

Secondly, there's suspend. For some reason, when I close the lid and let the laptop in that state for a while, it'll plainly shut itself off. No shutdown, a power-off. Which is painful if you had stuff open. It's probably related to the pmud which doesn't want to start because it claims the laptop doesn't support suspend (which I'm sure it does), but I'll need to find that out.

Finally, there's the mobile communication. The laptop finds the mobile phone; they happily communicate; but once pppd dialed in to the free ISP I configured, the line drops out. Still need to find out what's going on there...

In other news, I started to use the blam aggregator to read Planet Debian. I find that manually skimming over the planet site in search for items I haven't read yet is an efficient waste of my time; so I'd better use specialized software to help me do this. Blam works okay, but there's a slight peculiar interesting bit about it: the default configuration comes with configured aggregation for Planet GNOME, Planet Debian, and other things. The Planet GNOME aggregation shows hackergotchis; however, the Planet Debian one does not. Why is that?

Speaking of GNOME, it appears I'm beginning to like it. I have used Enlightenment 0.16 for three years, until a few weeks ago; I started to use GNOME for various reasons, but "I think GNOME is cool" certainly wasn't one of them. Now that I am using it (and am starting to get to know it quite a bit better), I must say I like it more and more. Perhaps it's not as bad as I initially thought...

Oh, and I just love CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_BLINK. Really. Why isn't it enabled in the default configuration?