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Re: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:07:16 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work
- References: <012401c48a91$80c212f0$f25978c1@VERNETT>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Cygwin installation on XP and have recently installed the latest X11 software for it.
> Working fine, except for one minor irritation.
>
> I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, UK layout. X seems to ignore (for all practical purposes) the options
> -xkbmodel "microsoft" -xkblayout "gb" which I specify on the Xwin.exe command line.
>
> In X, if I use setxkbmap -print, it correctly displays that it's an MS keyboard with UK layout, however several keys are
> always incorrect, like Shift-2 which is @ instead of ", Shift-3 which is # instead of £, and the usual suspects of \/|<>
> which are also incorrectly mapped.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Please send /tmp/XWin.log.
bye
ago
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