Keyboard Mapping Problems (and a fix)

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 16 May 2005 castelow@lineone.net wrote:

> I am using Cygwin/X with the following packages installed:
> 6.8.2.0-1    xorg-x11-base
> 6.8.2.0-1    xorg-x11-bin
> 6.8.2.0-1    xorg-x11-bin-dlls
> 6.8.2.0-1    xorg-x11-bin-lndir
> 6.8.2.0-1    xorg-x11-etc
> 6.8.1.0-2    xorg-x11-fenc
> 6.8.1.0-3    xorg-x11-fnts
> 6.8.2.0-1    xorg-x11-libs-data
> 6.8.2.0-2    xorg-x11-xwin
> 
> and on a Dell laptop (windows XP SP 2) cannot get the (GB) keyboard to be
> recognised until I add the following symbolic link:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> /etc/X11/xkb

actually it should be installed with the xorg-x11-libs-data package. I'll have 
to check if there is a problem with packaging.

bye
	ago
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