UK keyboard layout problem

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote:

> Hi
> 
> since updating the XFree version to the latest version (via cygwin setup), I
> always have the US keyboard layout. Note that I had the appropriate UK
> layout before without having to do anything at all (I did skip a few updates
> so unfortunately can't tell you from when this happened).
> 
> So, I tried to read the FAQ and did the following:
> 
> I modified startxwin.bat to do:
> 
> 	XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -xkblayout uk
> 
> but that didn't help.
> 
> Then I tried the testing procedure given on the web page:
> 
> 	setxkbmap de -model pc105
> 
> but I get the following:
> 
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
> Couldn't find rules file (xorg)
> 
> 
> Potentially related is that I don't seem to have
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb, but only
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.old-1
> 
> What can I do?

try removing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb.old-1 and recreate the link
ln -sf /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb

bye
	ago
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