(fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

[thomas graichen]

Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote:

>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> I tried that but got:
>> 
>> $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 
>> /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb
>> Error:            Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap)
>>                   Include file "xfree86" ignored
>>                   Abandoning keycodes file "gb"

> Why are still people working with this way? The keyboard is configurable
> in the config file /etc/X11/XF86Config. A sample config file can be found
> at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2

maybe because it is notwhere really documented - this should definiteley
go into the cygwin xfree86 faq and maybe a sample XF86Config should be
part of the cygwin xfree86 distrib ... definitely this way is much
better and cleaner than the xkbcomp thing by hand ...

t

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