Hi
Today I updated Cygwin again after quite a while and after starting the
X Server I found out that due to some mayor update, autodetection of my
keyboard layout fails.
While in /tmp/XWin.log the follwing lines appear:
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000807" (00000807)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "German (Switzerland)" (807), type "4"
I'm effectively off with a default US english keyboard.
I guess it's because the name of the keyboard layouts changed in this
new X.org based release of X, AFAIK in older XFree releases it was de_CH
and fr_CH.
From a newer Ubuntu related howto ( :-) ) I finally derived the command
that makes my layout work if I put it into a suitable startup script:
setxkbmap ch -model 105 #(for Swiss German)
or
setxkbmap ch -model 105 -variant fr #(for Swiss French)
Though it works for me this way I'm pretty sure, I can help giving
Cygwin a better X server by submitting this bug report as someone here
knows how to fix the autodetection routines.
best regards
Marco
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