I have found my problem. I had tried cut and paste functions in Emacs but try the new keyboard mapping in Xterm. In fact, "ca_enhanced" keyboard was working in some application, but not on others. Emacs, vim, nano see well the new mapping. Xterm and some other applications like python interpreter environment don't see it, but I can't make any cut and paste with accented character either. I'll see case by case for the configuration of these applications but it is no more a keyboard-mapping problem.
Take note also that "ca_enhanced " keyboard is a nice one that fit exactly with the symbol on my decking keyboard. It seems that the comment in the ca_enhanced description is right: "Most of the french canadian keyboards available on PCs are mapped like this." It will be great if this mapping is selected automatically in the future. That will help the new users. Thanks again for your support. -----Message d'origine----- De: Daniel Landry Date: 6 juillet 2005 16:34 A: 'Alexander Gottwald'; 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Objet: RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard I'm familiar with deadkeys, but they don't work on my Cygwin installation. The <e> character is a special key that doesn't request any deadkey and it doesn't work either. Using any accented character give always the same result: BEEP without any character displayed. All other characters seem to work correctly. I give a try to the "fr" mapping with the same result. One of my co-workers has also installed Cygwin on his computer and he obtained the same results as mine. I made an upgrade this morning to be certain that I'm having the last Cygwin version. If it can help, my computer is a Dell Latitude C840. The first time that I saw the fr_CA layout on Linux was with Redhat using Xfree86 and I also recently saw it with Gentoo (2005.0) using Xorg. I'm presuming it is part of the Xfree86 and Xorg projects. You can also find a reference in the Cygwin file /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86. However, running "setxkbmap fr_CA" in Cygwin give " Error loading new keyboard description". Note that I can adapt myself to use ca or ca_enhanced without problem. It is easy to adapt us if only few keys are to a different place. Thanks for your support -----Message d'origine----- De: Alexander Gottwald Date: 6 juillet 2005 14:56 A: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'; Daniel Landry Objet: RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: > Running setxkbmap with each layouts (ca, fr_CA, ca_enhanced) don't fix the > problem. In all case, the French accents are replaced by a BEEP and any > character is displayed. However, I can make a cut and paste from WinXP > without any problem. ca_enhanced uses deadkeys. I get this layout (not printing modifier, backspace and stuff) #1234567890-= qwertyuiop^ asdfghjkl;`< "zxcvbnm,.e ^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose A > Concerning the key mapping, I'm using fr_CA on my Debian at home and it's > working great. This must be a debian special. There is no such layout in Cygwin/X > However, as Cygwin run on Windows, I presume that the best > would be to keep the same keyboard mapping that Windows uses. At least in the autedetection list. You can override the defaults with the -xkblayout parameter anyway and set a different layout. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723