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Re: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
- From: "frederic bregier" <fbregier at webmails dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "Franz Wolfhagen" <FRANZW at dk dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:7:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX
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Sorry, I was surely not enough precise.
I know the xkbmap option and also the xmodmap.
But, when you run XWin with the -query option
in order to access to a X11 server (in this case an AIX IBM Server),
you cannot anymore use the xmodmap since it is not running
on your PC.
For the +kb, since AIX needs that you specify -kb (no xkb support
in XDMCP), then I was wondering if there is a way to compile
the XWin.exe with the "french" option by default,
that is to say, whatever the X11 server I am connecting to,
I will use a french keyboard (or another for other people).
I saw in the source :
there is some #define like
XKB_DFLT_KB_LAYOUT "us"
Can I expect to get a "fr" running well here ?
I know, it is from xkb, so perhaps it will not work whatever.
So if someone knows the solution, at least to connect to an AIX
system?
Of course, I didn't mentionned, but I can't expect to change
anything on the server side, only on the client side, i.e.
the PC running Xfree. If I can do that, there will be a big
administration (government) using Xfree instead of a commercial
product, that's why I try top figure out...
Regards
FB
>
>
> There are basically two ways of doing that both works....
>
> Goto www.gotti.org for a little more detail, this are the basics (I
have
> tested both and they work ok) :
>
> 1: compile a keyboard with your french locale : (this is an example
in fora
> belgish locale taken from an earlier append - change be to fr) :
>
> > > xkbcomp -xkm -m be /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/be.xkm
> > >
> > > XWin +kb -xkbmap be -auth "$HOME/.Xauthority" -emulate3buttons
>
> 2: use xmodmap with a french xmodmap.fr file (you can download a
redhat
> xmodmap library from www.gotti.org)
>
> You then just have to run the xmodmap /<location of your xmodmap.fr
> file>/xmodmap.fr
> Warning - you might recieve compile errors - i had to comment out
the 6.
> line in the xmodmap.dk file to get it to work.
>
> Hope this helps you.
>
> I think all us from europe should try to get together and get the
NLS
> thinngs to work on top of the great job the primarily done by Harold
- this
> would really make a breakthrough on this side of the Atlantic ;-) -
if I
> find some time I will try to sketch out the basics....
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Regards
> Franz Wolfhagen
>
>
>
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