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Re: STARTXWIN.BAT Hanging Under Win2KPro
"Lionel B" <lionelbuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> had the same thing (also Win2K Pro). On failure to start, XWin.log
> revealed the following (which was not present on a successful restart):
>
> (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
Identical error...
> Googling turned up the following:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-08/msg00072.html
>
> Reading to the bottom, the "fix" suggested is to copy the directory
> /etc/X11/xkb to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb. This does appear to solve the
> problem in my case.
>
...unfortunately, it did not on mine. Thanks for the tip tho.
> I note that on my setup /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb would normally be just a
> soft link to /etc/X11/xkb ...
Ditto mine.
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Douglas J. Renze
drenze@earthlink.net
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