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Re: xmodmap, xkb and XF86Config
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>>you can try starting XWin with the extra parameters "+kb -xkbmap fr"
>>This should enable the xkb extension and sets the language to french
>>You can use any language code you want. Please report, if it works for
>>you.
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>it works but not out of the box as michel.demanet@transport.alstom.com
>has told me after i asked the same question here - the problem seems to
>be that XWin likes to have the "-xkbmap" files to be in /tmp - so doing
>the following should work (example here for a german keyboard - look
>for your name instead of "de" in the xfree86 keymap file)
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># xkbcomp -xkm -m de /usr/X11R6/lib/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/de.xkm
># XWin -xkbmap de ... other options ...
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I might be wrong, but isn't that because the X server automatically
compiles the needed .xkm files at startup from the info in
/etc/X11/XF86Config, and put the resulting file in /tmp ?
If so, is there a way to get the same behaviour with Cygwin/Xfree86 ?
Laurent Pinchart