keyboard behaviour with cygwin/xfree86

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Uwe Menzel wrote:

> Sorry for this beginner question,
> 
> 
> but I'm trying to fix my problems with the keyboard 
> since yesterday ...
> 
> I'm connecting from the PC to an alpha server using the
> startxwin.bat, and everything seems to work fine, 
> except for the keyboard behaviour.
> I read in one of the mailing lists that I should load
> the correct keyboard map using the xmodmap command,
> e.g. "xmodmap xmodmap.fr" or something like that
> (for a frech keyboard in this case).
> Is that right ???
> If so:
> How to get the correct keyboard map ???
I have collected some of them on http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree .

> Where to put this map ???
copy it to /etc/Xmodmap.window_host_name
> Where to put the xmodmap command ??? 
> ( before or after the XWin.exe call in startxwin.bat) ????
Best would be in xdm config. Check your Xsetup from the xdm dir. If there is
a line "hostmodmap=${ETCDIR}/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}" and later 
"test -r $hostmodmap && $xmodmap $hostmodmap" then it should already work.
Otherwise add a line "xmodmap /etc/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}".

If you have the keyboardsettings only during xdm login window, you have to
copy the modmap to ~/.Xmodmap on the xdmcp host.

HTH
	ago
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