RE: German Keyboard - Again :-)

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, George J. Wakileh wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
> 
> Thanks very much for your reply.  I use Windows 2000.
> 
> I think .xsession should be read otherwise I can't have the x-server 
> running.  I start the x-server by typing 'startx' in bash.  bash recognizes 
> the German keyboard.  It's only the xterm's after running the x-server that 
> don't recognize the German keyboard.  I copied xmodmap.de to .Xmodmap in 
> /home/wakileh.
> 
> In /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, I have
> $HOME/.xsession

Is the excute bit set? try 
/bin/bash $HOME/.xsession

> In /home/wakileh/.xsession, I have
> usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
> sysmodmap=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
> 
> # merge in keymaps
> if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
>     xmodmap $sysmodmap
> fi
> 
> if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
>     xmodmap $usermodmap
> fi
> 
> XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 &
> xterm -geometry 85x25+0+0 -T "Alt-F4 to Quit X-Server" -C -e bash &
> # xterm -geometry 85x25+0+0 -T `whoami`@`hostname` -C -e bash &
> # rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12" &
> # rxvt -fn 7x13bold -e bash &
> blackbox &
> xterm -geometry 80x18-0+205 -T `hostname`": xterm" -e bash &
> xterm -geometry 80x16-0-18 -C -T `hostname`": Console" -e bash &
> xterm -geometry 85x25+0-18 -T "Type 'exit' to logout"  -C -e bash &
> .
> .
> .
> 
> clear
> 
> I did a search for .xsession-errors, but did not find one.
This is created by xdm when using xdmcp. Does not matter.

> How do you connect to your linux box? Are you using xdmcp?
> *** This is difficult for me to answer.  I am having cygwin 1.1.8 and 
> xfree86 4.0.3 running on a PC with Windows 2000.
Ok. Then the above doesn't matter.


Just another question, does the XWin window disappear several times
during initialisation? If so, then the problem is that the server
is reset everytime the last connected client closed the conection.
To avoid this add a -noreset option to the XWin.exe commandline.

bye
    ago.

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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alexander Gottwald 
> [SMTP:Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de]
> Sent:	Sunday, 22 April 2001 13:45
> To:	George J. Wakileh
> Cc:	'Alexander Gottwald'
> Subject:	RE: German Keyboard - Again :-)
> 
> Do you connect to a linux machine or is the file .xsession
> on you windows box.
> If it's on your windows box, then it can't work since .xsession is
> not read. You can add the line
> c:/cygwin/bin/bash ~/.xsession
> instead of the call to the window manager (make sure the correct wm
> is called from .xsession) into the startxwin.bat.
> 
> How do you connect to your linux box? Are you using xdmcp?
> I ask to make sure .xsession is executed. Could you please
> check if some errors show up in .xsession-errors .
> 
> bye
>     ago
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