Keyboard confusion
Alexander Gottwald
Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sun Oct 27 06:12:00 GMT 2002
Robert White wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have noticed that when I am using the Xwin it seems to detect that I am using
> an Amercan Keyboard, rather than the British one.
The XServer is not detecting anything. You'll have to configure it in
/etc/X11/XF86Config.
> This is not the behaviour
> outside the X server. (I.e in a cygwin command prompt window the keyboard map is
> correct).
>
> Not having the XF86config I understand from the documentation that Xwin is
> configured from a combination of the native env and command line switches.
Maybe the XF86Config file is not installed by default but the newest release now
read this file if it exists. A sample file can be found at
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2
> I have checked the region settings and they are set to United Kingdom, althougth
> the checkbox set as system wide locale is not selected.
The windows settings have no effect to XWin.
bye
ago
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