GB keyboard layout broken

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Apr 6 11:36:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Jon Schneider wrote:

> (Re: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00095.html )
> 
> xkbcomp does now work for me and produce the correct layout though I 
> could almost swear it didn't in the previous cygwin X release.
> 
> I never had any non-binmode mounts.
> 
> (Soon after xkbcomp the X server locked up but this might be general 
> windows flakiness.)
> 
> What is the correct way to get the right layout at startup ? Surely 
> not run xkbcomp in startxwin ? A previous technique was to run 
> xmodmap on a dump from a working X server.

The correct way is to have either the defaults in the server or to use
-xkblayout. If that does not work then we'll have to figure out why it 
does not.

bye
	ago
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