xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone

[Harold L Hunt II]

Hans,

 From a Cygwin bash shell, run 'set' and report the values of any of the 
following:

XAPPLRESDIR
XCMSDB
XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH

Harold

Hans Dekker wrote:
> Sorry, setxkbmap doesn't work, not even in the xterm that is started by 
> cygwin itself using startxwin.bat.
> 
> Defining keys with xmodmap by hand works and xmodmap -pk gives you than 
> the output with the third definition (= AltGr definition) of a key.
> 
> What should I do with the cygwin X-window system to get it running well?
> 
> Regards, H.
> 
> Alexander Gottwald escribió:
> 
>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Hans Dekker wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Sorry for being persistent, but I guess I have to revisit alt-Gr key 
>>> problem using a Spanish keyboard.
>>>
>>> Just tried xserv version 4.3.0-30 (I used the 4.3.0-21 before), and 
>>> starting X-windows in either a xfree bash shell as well as the CDE 
>>> environment xmodmap tells me that I have only 2 definitions per key 
>>> (normal key usage and Shift-key combination). So the Alt-Gr 
>>> definition is not defined for the keys.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've just tried
>>
>> $ setxkbmap es
>>
>> Pressing AltGr + '1' results in '|'
>>
>> but xmodmap -pke does not print the extra symbols. So this must be a 
>> bug in xmodmap.
>> For your problem with spanish layout and CDE (which is most likely a 
>> quite old X11 installation) I'd pass you on to xfree86@xfree86.org.
>>
>>
>>> Xf86Config and the es keyboard map have been modified to define AltGr 
>>> as Mode_Switch. I tried various startup parameters with the XWin 
>>> executable, but no success. I installed xserv 4.3.0-30 over version 
>>> 4.3.0-21 using the Cygwin setup program. It's running in Windows XP.
>>
>>
>>
>> bye
>>     ago
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