Pipe (|) symbol under spanish keybord in xterm

[Jon TURNEY]

Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I run the command line: WXin.exe -xkblayout es, 
> appeared the Cygwin/X terminal (gray one) and I got the pipe but with other
> key, weird or normal? should I run this command or put it in the Xorg.conf file?

I hope this means that it is working correctly, now.

The most common Spanish keyboard layout should be auto-detected, so I guess 
you have a slightly unusual one.  If you could provide the information 
requested in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-submit-layout
we can add it in future.

 > should I run this command or put it in the Xorg.conf file?

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-why-no-xf86config

> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:10:17 -0400
>> Subject: Re: Pipe (|) symbol under spanish keybord in xterm
>> From: markjreed@gmail.com
>> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote:
>>> I've been working for a while with a spanish keyboard
>> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-non-U.S.-keyboard-layout
>>
>>> and up to now I don't know how to get the pipe (|) symbol in my xterm terminal. However, I
>>> do get it in the bash terminal without problems using Ctrl + Alt + 1. When I follow this step
>>> in the xterm I get this instead of the pipe: (arg: 1). What does it mean?
>> In readline's emacs mode, holding down the alt key while typing
>> numbers is how you enter a repeat count for an editing command - e.g.
>> alt-3 alt-f (hold down alt and type 3f) to go forward three words. The
>> "(arg: 1)" means you've typed a repeat count of "1" so far (you could
>> add more digits to make it "10" or something). The control key is not
>> contributing anything in this instance.
>>
>> It seems X is not recognizing your keyboard layout. I'd try adding
>> "-xkblayout es" to the X server command line, as indicated in the
>> above FAQ entry.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ:                   http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/