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From: Denis Beauchemin <Denis.Beauchemin@USherbrooke.ca>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Keyboard and start options problems
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBCD74B.8020101@USherbrooke.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBCCDED.5080200@cornell.edu>



Le 2010-04-07 14:24, Ken Brown a écrit :
> On 4/7/2010 1:31 PM, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>> I also have a problem with my start icon that doesn't seem to pick up my
>> custom parameters. The command is:
>> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>> -xkblayout ca -xkbvariant fr -emulate3buttons
>>
>> The layout is always US and the 3 button emulation doesn't work either.
>
> You need to quote the part after -c, and you're also missing a '--' 
> (see the startxwin documentation).  Try
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe 
> -- -xkblayout ca -xkbvariant fr -emulate3buttons'
>
> Ken

Thanks, that worked like a charm! I had tried quoting and the "--" but I 
guess I didn't try the right combination.

Denis

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 18:24 Denis Beauchemin
2010-04-07 19:04 ` Ken Brown
2010-04-08  1:02   ` Denis Beauchemin [this message]
2010-04-13 14:01     ` Jon TURNEY
2010-04-13 14:55       ` Denis Beauchemin
2010-07-01 14:31         ` Jon TURNEY
2010-07-01 14:38           ` [PATCH] Update mapping for Canadian keyboard layouts Jon TURNEY

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