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Re: UK keyboard layout problem
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Cygwin-Xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:56:17 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: UK keyboard layout problem
- References: <NBBBKKHEOHOEPNCALMIGKEAIEAAA.kris.thielemans@ic.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote:
> Hi
>
> since updating the XFree version to the latest version (via cygwin setup), I
> always have the US keyboard layout. Note that I had the appropriate UK
> layout before without having to do anything at all (I did skip a few updates
> so unfortunately can't tell you from when this happened).
>
> So, I tried to read the FAQ and did the following:
>
> I modified startxwin.bat to do:
>
> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -xkblayout uk
>
> but that didn't help.
>
> Then I tried the testing procedure given on the web page:
>
> setxkbmap de -model pc105
>
> but I get the following:
>
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
> Couldn't find rules file (xorg)
>
>
> Potentially related is that I don't seem to have
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb, but only
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.old-1
>
> What can I do?
try removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.old-1 and recreate the link
ln -sf /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
bye
ago
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