[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all:
I recently hit the foreign keyboard problem described in section 4.1.6
of the Cygwin/X FAQ. That is, I started with:
$ setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
[...]
and then I tried what the FAQ said, but I got the following error:
$ xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm -m de /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 localhost:0.0
Error: Can't find file "xfree86" for keycodes include
Exiting
Abandoning keycodes file "it
I googled for it, and after a while, I found the solution:
> I had the same problem...
> By copying the /etc/X11/xkb directory
> into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> It seems to work pretty well now...
(just in case, I renamed the existing file
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\xkb.lnk beforehand to xkb.bak.lnk before
copying over)
I don't know enough about Cygwin to realise how and why that is; all I
know is, when I copy that directory, my German keyboard works fine in
my X apps.
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM>
I'm not sure if it's a bug that could be fixed, but the FAQ entry could
be updated to help people like me. Who's maintaining the FAQ?
No one at the moment. :-( Would you be interested in taking it up?
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