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RE: XWin keyboard change
- To: "Patrick Roudaud" <patrick at enserg dot fr>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: XWin keyboard change
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:54:14 -0400
> >
> > There is no config file. I intentionally tweaked the XFree86
> code for Win32
> > so we do not need XF86Config file. I know there are advantages
> to have such
> > a config file, but there may be more support nightmares for Windows
> > versions.
> >
> > We are using DirectInput to control mouse and keyboard. Whatever
> > mouse and keyboard configuration is supported by your OS and its
> > configuration in Windows Control Panel, DirectInput would pass it on
> > to XWin server.
> >
> > Regards
> > Suhaib
>
> in my control panel (wint nt 4.0 sp3) , the keyboard is a
> PC/AT 102 and the
> regional setting is french-standard for layout .... However when
> using the
> XWin server , I come back to the standard qwerty US keyboard, so
> it looks like
> my NT setting isn't passed to the X server ... is there a way to
> debug that ???
>
> thanks,
What about DirectX/DirectInput. Is that a French version too on your
NT? If I remember correctly DirectInput is not fully supported on Windows
NT 4.0 and DirevtX version 3.0 is supported, only. We tried to make
it backward compatible so people on NT 4.0 can also use the X-server.
Suhaib
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> Patrick
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> Email: roudaud@enserg.fr Tel: (33) 04 76 85 60 83
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