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Re: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86


Hi Ago,

I'll have another go with the XKB stuff, can you point me to some docs on
this?

You say that /tmp is a compile time option, where do I find this?

Thanks

jeb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Gottwald" <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: XDMCP client using Cygwin/Xfree86


> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>
> > 1) XWin insists on the existance of a /tmp/.X11-unix folder, are there
any
> > commandline options, or compile options I can use to change this (so I
can
> > put it in %TEMP%/.X11-unix).
>
> Can't remember having seen such a feature. AFAIR, the server code (at
> least the xkb part) writes all temporary files to /tmp. But you can
> configure this at compiletime.
>
> > 2) The keyboard is always set to US. I've not managed to use the command
> > line option to change the keyboard layout, could someone please explain
this
> > (where are the xmodmap files I should be using). Once I can do this, I
can
> > make the frontend detect the windows keyboard layout and set Xwin
> > accordingly. At the moment XKeyboard extension is disabled because
xkbcomp,
> > etc isn't available.
>
> It think -xkbmap does this. But I'm not sure.
> The option requires one parameter which is a file in /tmp. Either this
> was a compiled keympa file as produced by xkbcomp or the description
needed
> as input for xkbcomp (I can't verify this since I have no system at hand
> where I can test this, but I guess it was the first one)
> >
> > Finally could someone please clarify where I stand on licenses, what
license
> > is Cygwin under, what is cygwin/xfree86 under, can I put my frontend
under
> > GPL without conflicting with the other components.
> >
> > http://www.jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk/extend/index.html
>
> I'm not a lawyer but taken into account what software projects exist, GPL
> should be ok.
>
> - A lot of GPL programs use X11 (eg. Gnome)
> - A lot of GPL programs use cygwin
>
> These examples don't prove that its legal, but I doubt its illegal. The
> best is to wait for other responses.
>
> bye
> ago
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