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From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: xserv 4.3.0-29 Alt Gr Problem is gone
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40040BBA.5050900@msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40039FC1.9020308@juntadeandalucia.es>
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
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-13 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 14:59 Christoph Leser
2003-12-30 21:52 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-09 12:51 ` Hans Dekker
2004-01-09 14:57 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-13 7:36 ` Hans Dekker
2004-01-13 15:16 ` Harold L Hunt II [this message]
2004-01-14 7:56 ` Hans Dekker
2004-01-15 13:45 ` Hans Dekker
2004-01-15 13:51 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-15 14:09 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-17 11:49 ` Hans Dekker
2004-03-17 12:55 ` Alexander Gottwald
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