From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>,
The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: German Keyboard for X
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 23:00:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bcd064c-37f0-6e0e-3e23-dfd81473bae8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dba6197-fc55-fa5a-de7b-4849e1f07324@dronecode.org.uk>
Am 05.05.2020 um 18:20 schrieb Jon Turney:
> On 05/05/2020 17:01, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>
> There's some code in the X server which tries to identify if you are
> using Windows under bootcamp on a mac, with the appropriate Windows
> keyboard layout, and turns on model=mac there.
>
> At the moment, this gets turned on if the top 2 bits of the layout ID
> are set, which really just means "non-Microsoft provided layout", which
> is perhaps too aggressive.
>
> It's probably a bug in xkeyboard-config that combination of options
> produces mapping that's messed up like that.
>
>> Suggestion?
>
> i) Explicitly set the X server keyboard layout you want using setxkbmap
> or the equivalent options.
Thanks.
This resetted to the expected layout
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
Marco
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2020-05-05 16:01 Marco Atzeri
2020-05-05 16:20 ` Jon Turney
2020-05-05 21:00 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
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