Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Starks-Browning wrote: > But how do we use /etc/X11/XF86Config? I don't have one there > already. I downloaded your sample, but there was a lot of other stuff > besides the keyboard options. I have replaced the configfile with a version, where all unused sections were replaced with the

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Starks-Browning wrote: > But how do we use /etc/X11/XF86Config? I don't have one there > already. I downloaded your sample, but there was a lot of other stuff > besides the keyboard options. The other stuff is not used, but partly required. The easiest way is to add/replace the options

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 20 Feb 03, Colin Harrison writes: > > Hi > > You will need more than that in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file:- > > ... > > Works for me. Fantastic. That did it. Thanks very much! David

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi You will need more than that in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file:- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "dummy" Screen "dummy" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard"

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 6 Feb 03, Alexander Gottwald writes: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > I tried that but got: > > > > $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 > > /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb > > Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keyma

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, The selection becoming unhighlighted is the expected, though undesirable behavior of -clipboard. There has been much discussion of this on the list. Just search the mailing list archives for "xwinclip" if you want the full explanation. No comments on the other bugs. Kensuke will nee

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, thomas graichen wrote: > maybe because it is notwhere really documented - this should definiteley > go into the cygwin xfree86 faq and maybe a sample XF86Config should be > part of the cygwin xfree86 distrib ... definitely this way is much > better and cleaner than the xkbcomp

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread thomas graichen
Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> I tried that but got: >> >> $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 >> /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb >> Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) >>

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread J S
Wow that works! Thanks Alex. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I tried that but got: > > $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 > /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb > Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) > Include fil

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I tried that but got: > > $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 > /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb > Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) > Include file "xfree86" ignored >

RE: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Leigh Hebblethwaite
. Are you typing the command in as one line? If not you'll need the '\'. Leigh. -Original Message- From: J S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 13:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86 I get the sa

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread J S
I get the same error even if I try to compile the German keyboard: xkb_keymap "de" { xkb_keycodes{ include "xfree86" }; xkb_types { include "default" }; xkb_compatibility { include "default" }; xkb_symbols { include "en_US

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread J S
Hi Tom, I tried that but got: $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) Include file "xfree86" ignored Abandoning keycodes file "gb" This is what /