Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Cygwin installation on XP and have recently installed the latest X11 software for it.
> Working fine, except for one minor irritation.
> 
> I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, UK layout. X seems to ignore (for all practical purposes) the options
> -xkbmodel "microsoft" -xkblayout "gb"  which I specify on the Xwin.exe command line.
> 
> In X, if I use setxkbmap -print, it correctly displays that it's an MS keyboard with UK layout, however several keys are
> always incorrect, like Shift-2 which is @ instead of ", Shift-3 which is # instead of £, and the usual suspects of \/|<>
> which are also incorrectly mapped.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Please send /tmp/XWin.log. 

bye
	ago
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