RE: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

[Leigh Hebblethwaite <LHebblethwaite at transoft dot com>]

The command below worked for me:

$ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 \
/etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb

It may be nothing to do with your problem but neither of your examples of the xkbcomp commands you have tried show the '\' at the end of the 1st line of the command. Are you typing the command in as one line? If not you'll need the '\'.

Leigh.

-----Original Message-----
From: J S [mailto:vervoom@hotmail.com]
Sent: 06 February 2003 13:12
To: tgr@spoiled.org
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86


I get the same error even if I try to compile the German keyboard:

xkb_keymap "de" {
    xkb_keycodes        { include "xfree86"             };
    xkb_types           { include "default"             };
    xkb_compatibility   { include "default"             };
    xkb_symbols         { include "en_US(pc105)+de"     };
    xkb_geometry        { include "pc(pc102)"           };


$ xkbcomp -xkm -m de /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 
/etc/X11/xkb/keymap/de
Error:            Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap)
                  Include file "xfree86" ignored
                  Abandoning keycodes file "de"





>ho - i can only say that it worked for german (de) - maybe you
>should compare the entries and files for those two to see what
>the difference is ... if you find out anything - please let me
>know ...
>
>t
>
>On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:38, you wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I tried that but got:
> >
> > $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
> > /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb
> > Error:            Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames,
> > got Keymap) Include file "xfree86" ignored
> >                   Abandoning keycodes file "gb"
> >
> > This is what /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 says for gb:
> >
> > xkb_keymap "gb" {
> >     xkb_keycodes        { include "xfree86"             };
> >     xkb_types           { include "default"             };
> >     xkb_compatibility   { include "default"             };
> >     xkb_symbols         { include "en_US(pc105)+gb"     };
> >     xkb_geometry        { include "pc(pc102)"           };
> >
> >
> > Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JS.
> >
> > >just because i often ran across it an due to my earlier
> > > question on that list which seems to pop up in google if you
> > > search for that topic i'd like to write down how to make
> > > cygwin's XWin work natively with a non us keyboard (tested
> > > with the german keyboard but should also work for other
> > > languages)
> > >
> > >* first you have to compile a keymap for your language - for
> > > german this looks like
> > >
> > >     xkbcomp -xkm -m de /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
> > > \ /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/de
> > >
> > >   in older versions of cygwin xfree86 it had to be
> > > /tmp/de.xkm instead of /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/de
> > >
> > >* then you can start your xserver like
> > >
> > >     XWin.exe -xkbmap de
> > >
> > >   and you should have your keyboard (btw. don't be surprised
> > > that in the shell not all charackters are shown - like for
> > > instance the german umlauts - thats the default bash behavior
> > > as used in cygwin - just open a vi inside that bash and you
> > > should be able to see all the other charackters too
> > >
> > >* if you want to know what the name for your keyboard is or
> > >   which ones are available: just have a look at
> > >
> > >     /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
> > >
> > >hope that helps someone and maybe this should be added to the
> > >cygwin/XFree86 faq ... i hope everything is correct and i have
> > >not missed anything - best wishes
> > >
> > >t
> > >
> > >--
> > >thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached,
> > > not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there
> > > is no longer anything to take away. --- antoine de
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> > >
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> > > not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there
> > > is no longer anything to take away. --- antoine de
> > > saint-exupery
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