XKB not working

[Uwe Schmidtmann]

Hello.

I had a lot of problems with keyboard layouts as well with the older 
version of X on cygnu. Since them I am still using the following lines 
in my local .xinitrc:

sysmodmap=/etc/german.key

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
     xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi


This is a workaround but it works. The Keyboard mapping was read with 
xmodmap from my linux box...

I do not want to post the keyboard file here, but in case you need it, 
just let me know.

Regards,

Uwe

Edmund Urbani wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Yesterday i installed cygwin with XFree 4.2.0. Everything worked fine
> from the start except that I could not set it up for my german keyboard
> layout. All I get, when I try to use eg. setxkbmap is a popup window
> (outside the X server as a normal Win2000-window) with this error
> message:
> 
> Failed assertion
> fds_on_hold !=NULL
> at line 643 of file
> /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
> 
> Other tools using XKB (like Kde Control Center) cause the same error.
> 
> I found an earlier post from Charles L. Werner on this list, who appears
> to have (had?) the same problem, but there does not seem to be a helpful
> reply to that one.
> As a workaround I am currently using xmodmap in the X server's startup
> scripts, but I would really prefer to use XKB instead.
> 
> So, any ideas what might be wrong with my X server? What is this
> fds_on_hold variable and that dtable.cc file all about, anyway?
> 
>  Edmund
> 
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