French keyboard : XWin -query

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@yahoo.com
Fri Sep 13 10:58:00 GMT 2002


--- UTZEL  Nadine <UTZEL@drfccad.cea.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I try to replace Exceed by Xfree86 in my department of research.
> In my .bat file, I generate a keymap and I connect to a hostname
> parameter
> (see after).
> 
> So, at the login windows, my keyboard is french and so during my
> session.
> 
> But, the ALT GR doesn't work. So we can't use XFree86, because our
> scientists need 
> ~ { [ | \ ] } in their programs or in their Matlab session.
> 
> What is your solution for this problem ?

The easiest solution is to purchase English Keyboards, which is what
the current Cygwin/XFree maintainer uses.  However, if you persist on
using the nonstandard keyboard, my suggestion would be to search the
mailinglist archives -- the URL is located at the bottom of this
message.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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