xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone

[Hans Dekker]

Harold,

There are no such environment variables set.

startxwin.bat was used to start up the bash shell.

H.

Harold L Hunt II escribió:
> 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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