----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon TURNEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs
> Jon TURNEY wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde > > character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working > > anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? (In case that it went down the drain: One is enough,: ~ = -> $HOME :) > Ok, it seems I can reproduce this by telling Windows I have a german keyboard > (although starting the X server with '-xkblayout de' doesn't seem to be > sufficient, which is somewhat mysterious) and it only affects the xemacs window. Great! Thanks for still bearing with me. > A workaround seems to be to do 'setxkbmap de' before starting xemacs. > > This and other reported problems make me thing something not quite right about > the way we are initializing XKB for an autodetected keyboard layout > (probably related to MPX changes in the X server), which needs more > investigation.... I fully agree. -Andreas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/