[Sussex] xev ?

Steven Dobson steve at dobson.org
Sun Mar 12 14:24:08 UTC 2006


John

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 14:07 +0000, John D. wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 08:58, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> > John D. wrote:
> > >>>Is xev part of some sort of toolkit or similar ?
> >
> > It's part of package xbase-clients on Debian
> >
> > > If I try (what seems logical to me) cd /usr/X11R6/bin and then issue the
> > > xev command, I'm still getting "command not found" as both user and root.
> >
> > See what Steve wrote about your path.
> So as I get this
> 
> bash-3.00$ echo $PATH
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_09/bin
> bash-3.00$ which xev
> which: no xev in 
> (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_09/bin)
> bash-3.00$

It should be in /usr/X11R6/bin take a look.

> I take it that xev or wherever it is, isn't installed. Damn, I wonder what 
> package it's in for mandriva 2006 then ?

In Debian it is in cbase-clients, no idea about mandriva.

Steve

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