Re: Define a foreign language keyboard in HP-Ux CDE?

[Hans Dekker <hans dot dekker dot ext at juntadeandalucia dot es>]

Hi Harold and others,

I installed the new version of the Xserver and I got some closer but not 
as close as I´d like.

Using Xserv 4.3.0-21 and defining the keyboard as Spanish in XF86Config 
gave me the following:

- Shift key combinations work as supposed on a Spanish keyboard.
- AltGr key combinations don't work.
- In the xmodmap -pk output I can see that there is no definition for 
key combinations with AltGr, and that the AltGr key is defined as:

113    0xfe03    (ISO_Level3_Shift)      0xff20 (Multi_key)

- I am still working with HP-UX CDE.
- The definitions in /etc/X11/XF86Config are:

    Option "XkbModel"    "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout"   "es"
#    Option "XkbVariant"  "nodeadkeys"

#    Option "LeftAlt"     "Meta"
    Option "RightAlt"    "ModeShift"

- XWin.log says it's installing the keyboard OK.

Any suggestions to resolve this will be more than welcome.

Regards, Hans.

Harold L Hunt II escribió:
> Hans,
>
> Hans Dekker wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Having downloaded the latest version of XFree86, I encounter a
> > problem using altGR on a Spanish keyboard.
> >
> > I searched and I searched and saw many articles of people with the 
> > same question from Denmark, Norway, Germany, UK and other countries, 
> > and fixes with Xmodmaps, xkeycaps, XF86Config, etc leaving still 
> > unclear to me which one is right: I didn't get it working yet.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what´s the final solution?
> >
> > Doing a xmodmap on one of the CDE windows shows a keyboard with a US 
> > layout.
> >
> > A normal Xfree86 xterm (without CDE) is working fine with the same 
> > keyboard.
> >
> > I am using Xserv V 4.2.0-42 on WindowsXP with a CDE environment on
>
>                      ^^^^^^^^
>
> Wow!  4.2.0-42 was released 2003/06/02.  Since then we have moved from 
> XFree86 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 and had about 25 updates to the Cygwin X Server 
> (XWin.exe, XFree86-xserv).  A lot of those updates are for 
> keyboard-detection code written by Alexander Gottwald.  I suggest 
> updating your installation and buying Alexander a pizza if it works for 
> you:
>
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/donations.html
>
> :)
>
> Here is the release announcement for XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42, in case 
> anyone is interested:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2003-06/msg00005.html
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Harold
>
>
> .