Using Cygwin to connect an AIX box. Questions for german, italian, french, spanish [...] users

[Stephane Poirey]

Hello,
I'm connecting to a AIX box. Since my laptop has a french keyboard layout I 
first managed to build a french keymap.

xkbcomp.exe -xkm -m fr /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/fr.xkm

And then I use a ms-dos batch script to launch my X client with the right 
options...

@echo off
d:
chdir d:\cygwin\bin
bash -c "/usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe :0 -query aixbox +kb -xkbmap fr -fullscreen -
unixkill"

First of all, I have to use +kb in order to have my fr keymap working, if I 
use -kb (like mentioned in the FAQ) I'll be under default (US) keymap. 

Everything goes right until I try to print some special characters like '|' 
or '\', which are accessible with the famous 'Alt Gr' key.
In fact the Alt Gr key simply does not work at all, 

I've found several usefull hints in the FAQ but none really solved my problem.

The most efficient action is to do a 

xmodmap -e 'keysym Mode_switch = Alt_R'

just after login in... This way I can have at least one dtterm accepting my 
Alt_R signal and fully understanding it as a regular Mode_switch.
But unfortunately this will works once (in only one dtterm).


I know that Alt Gr problems were under the spotligth in the past and there is 
probably no solution since it seems to be an aix related problem, but I wanted 
to ask people using non-qwerty keyboards what solution do they adopted (if the 
did'nt give up) ?