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Re: setxkbmap failure with cygwin-xfree 4.2.0
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: "Charles L. Werner" <cw at gamma-rs dot ch>
- Cc: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:39:24 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: setxkbmap failure with cygwin-xfree 4.2.0
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--- "Charles L. Werner" <cw@gamma-rs.ch> a écrit : >
Greetings,
>
> I have attempted to use setxkbmap to change the
> keyboard layout to a
> swiss-german layout. Just using the default layout
> leads to getting
> standard key codes within the XFree desktop apps
> (xterm...). Our
> installation is the latest 4.2.0 XFree86 , up to
> date cygwin
> installation (see output of cygcheck attached) under
> NT-4 sp5 and WIN2K.
> With the command:
>
> setxkbmap -layout de_CH
>
> you get the setxkbmap error message:
>
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xfree86' model - 'pc101'
> layout - 'us'
> Error loading new keyboard description
>
> There was also a MS error box that popped up with
> the message:
>
> Failed assertion
> fds_on_hold !=NULL
> at line 643 of file
>
/cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
>
> I tried other arguments to setxkbmap but all give
> the same response,
> even using the default arguments. xkb files are in
> /etc/lib/X11/xkb
>
> Any suggestions? is some environment variable
> wrongly set?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles
>
>
> --
> Dr. Charles L. Werner
> Gamma Remote Sensing AG
> Thunstrasse 130
> CH-3074 Muri b. Bern, Switzerland
>
> Tel: +41 31 951.7005
> FAX: +41 31 951.7008
> http://www.gamma-rs.ch
>
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