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Re: Problems configuring cygwin-xfree for XDM and non-US kbd`
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:15:08 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Problems configuring cygwin-xfree for XDM and non-US kbd`
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> I tried this twice: once using the setxkbmap in RedHat 9, which failed with
> a simple error (unknon map, or something like that), the other time using
> setxkbmap.exe from cygwin, which crashed the X server with a segfault (core
> dumped). The latter is why I can't say exactly what the former error
> message was!
How is /tmp mounted? I always recommend binmode. A textmode mount has led
to errors a while ago. I don't know if they can still crash the server but
mounting /tmp in binmode will remove this point of failure.
Does xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/gb.xkm work?
bye
ago
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