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RE: UK keyboard layout problem
- From: "Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:54:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: UK keyboard layout problem
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Thanks Alexander
>
> try removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.old-1 and recreate the link
> ln -sf /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
ok. that maybe happened because of an aborted installation or so.
I did that, restarted the X server, and now it recognises my keyboard
without having to explicitly specify a layout. Great!
thanks a lot.
Kris
PS: Note that I still cannot do " setxkbmap uk" as I get:
Error loading new keyboard description
I tried to reinstall all of the xorg packages I had installed, but the
behaviour remains the same.
I then checked /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst, and it indeed doesn't
have a uk layout, but it does have a gb one! So, I really should have been
using "gb", which works fine.