AW: keyboard behaviour with cygwin/xfree86

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

> Alexander
> 
> Binaries are compiled with -DXKB flag, but yes there are bugs and it does
> not work.
> 

I just digged through the xkb code and found that xkbcomp produces buggy
output and X itself trusts it and crashes. Could someone please verify this. 

(you need /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB and complete /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb)
Start the xserver
run setxkbmap -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 de

the Xserver will crash with Status Access Violation. This seems to be a task
for the core Xfree developers since they're using pointers without makeing 
sure the pointers are not NULL. (xkb/xkbUtils xkbUpdateDescActions())

Apart from this xmodmap seems to write the keymaps in a wrong format.

I also tried using a xkb-map compiled on my linux box and this one worked as
expected.

bye
    ago
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