keyboard settings

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Dec 10 09:36:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Cee Rainer wrote:

> Dear Cygwin users,
> 
>     I do not succeed in setting my german keyboard (portable PC, 88 
> keys) under Cygwin XFree86. I have read the FAQ's  and the hints on the 
> Chemnitz homepage  
> (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/#config).  This is what  I 
> did so far:
> 
> - I have copied the  XF86Config sample file into the directory  
> etc/X11/XF86Config, which I first had to create, and unpacked     it
> - I have uncommented the lines
>                             Option "XkbRules"    "xfree86"
>                             Option "XkbModel"    "pc105"
>                             Option "XkbLayout"    "de"
> 
> Nevertheless I still have the US keyboard settings. It seems as if the 
> config file is completely ignored. My /tmp directory is not mounted at 
> all. I am using the latest Cygwin version (1.5.5-1.)

What tells /tmp/XWin.log?

bye
	ago

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