ho - i can only say that it worked for german (de) - maybe you
should compare the entries and files for those two to see what
the difference is ... if you find out anything - please let me
know ...
t
On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:38, you wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I tried that but got:
>
> $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
> /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb
> Error: Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames,
> got Keymap) Include file "xfree86" ignored
> Abandoning keycodes file "gb"
>
> This is what /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 says for gb:
>
> xkb_keymap "gb" {
> xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86" };
> xkb_types { include "default" };
> xkb_compatibility { include "default" };
> xkb_symbols { include "en_US(pc105)+gb" };
> xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc102)" };
>
>
> Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JS.
>
> >just because i often ran across it an due to my earlier
> > question on that list which seems to pop up in google if you
> > search for that topic i'd like to write down how to make
> > cygwin's XWin work natively with a non us keyboard (tested
> > with the german keyboard but should also work for other
> > languages)
> >
> >* first you have to compile a keymap for your language - for
> > german this looks like
> >
> > xkbcomp -xkm -m de /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
> > \ /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/de
> >
> > in older versions of cygwin xfree86 it had to be
> > /tmp/de.xkm instead of /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/de
> >
> >* then you can start your xserver like
> >
> > XWin.exe -xkbmap de
> >
> > and you should have your keyboard (btw. don't be surprised
> > that in the shell not all charackters are shown - like for
> > instance the german umlauts - thats the default bash behavior
> > as used in cygwin - just open a vi inside that bash and you
> > should be able to see all the other charackters too
> >
> >* if you want to know what the name for your keyboard is or
> > which ones are available: just have a look at
> >
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
> >
> >hope that helps someone and maybe this should be added to the
> >cygwin/XFree86 faq ... i hope everything is correct and i have
> >not missed anything - best wishes
> >
> >t
> >
> >--
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> > not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there
> > is no longer anything to take away. --- antoine de
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> >
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> >thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached,
> > not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there
> > is no longer anything to take away. --- antoine de
> > saint-exupery
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