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Re: Japanese keyboard auto-detection
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Takuma Murakami <murakami at ipl dot t dot u-tokyo dot ac dot jp>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:48:19 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Japanese keyboard auto-detection
- References: <20030921113132.8FE3.MURAKAMI@ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp><Pine.LNX.4.55.0309212338460.22609@lupus.ago.vpn><20030922134757.9514.MURAKAMI@ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Takuma Murakami wrote:
> -- snip --
> (==) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "E0200411" (00000411)
> (==) Using preset keyboard for "Japanese" (1041), type "7"
> (EE) No primary keyboard configured
> (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
> Rules = "xfree86" Model = "jp106" Layout = "jp106" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
> -- snip --
> WinXP and Win2k both show the same log.
>
> I think it detects the Japanese keyboard but can't get
> the appropriate setting for it. What can I do to fix it?
>
> By the way, a typical difference between Japanese and
> English keymaps is symbols. In Japanese keyboards
> 'shift + 8' yields '(' while '*' in English ones.
It seems the jp106 layout definition in the xkb sources is broken.
Does "setxkbmap -v 10 jp -model jp" work for you?
bye
ago
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