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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: a57148@posteo.de
Subject: Re: 'setxkbmap us -variant colemak' does not work
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 23:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3a25457-39c1-310c-2219-dd0cae8dcac0@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab42d452f56fe50e0c89c0e3bc55d72d@posteo.de>

On 25/05/2016 10:47, a57148@posteo.de wrote:

> The command 'setxkbmap us –variant colemak' does not work (x86 and amd64).
> Returns error message: 'Error loading new keyboard description'

This doesn't seem to be the correct syntax.

'setxkbmap us colemak' or 'setxkbmap -layout us -variant colemak' work.

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Jon Turney
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-31 11:33 UTC|newest]

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2016-05-25 14:22 a57148
2016-05-31 23:01 ` Jon Turney [this message]

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