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Re: GB keyboard layout broken
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:36:29 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: GB keyboard layout broken
- References: <4072851A.25488.565C49@localhost>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Jon Schneider wrote:
> (Re: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00095.html )
>
> xkbcomp does now work for me and produce the correct layout though I
> could almost swear it didn't in the previous cygwin X release.
>
> I never had any non-binmode mounts.
>
> (Soon after xkbcomp the X server locked up but this might be general
> windows flakiness.)
>
> What is the correct way to get the right layout at startup ? Surely
> not run xkbcomp in startxwin ? A previous technique was to run
> xmodmap on a dump from a working X server.
The correct way is to have either the defaults in the server or to use
-xkblayout. If that does not work then we'll have to figure out why it
does not.
bye
ago
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