Workaround for foreign keyboard problem to be entered in FAQ section 4.1.6

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

rdiezmail-cygwinxfree@yahoo.de wrote:
> Hi all:
>  
> I recently hit the foreign keyboard problem described in section 4.1.6
> of the Cygwin/X FAQ. That is, I started with:
> 
>  $ setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105
>   
>  Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
>  [...]
>  
> and then I tried what the FAQ said, but I got the following error:
> 
>   $ xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm -m de /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 localhost:0.0
>   Error:            Can't find file "xfree86" for keycodes include
>                     Exiting
>                     Abandoning keycodes file "it
> 
> I googled for it, and after a while, I found the solution:
> 
>  >  I had the same problem...
>  >  By copying the /etc/X11/xkb directory
>  >  into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
>  >  It seems to work pretty well now...
> 
> (just in case, I renamed the existing file
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\xkb.lnk beforehand to xkb.bak.lnk before
> copying over)
> 
> I don't know enough about Cygwin to realise how and why that is; all I
> know is, when I copy that directory, my German keyboard works fine in
> my X apps.

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM>

> I'm not sure if it's a bug that could be fixed, but the FAQ entry could
> be updated to help people like me. Who's maintaining the FAQ?

No one at the moment. :-(  Would you be interested in taking it up?


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