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Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86
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 Keymap)
> > Include file "xfree86" ignored
> > Abandoning keycodes file "gb"
>
> Why are still people working with this way? The keyboard is configurable
> in the config file /etc/X11/XF86Config. A sample config file can be found
> at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2
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. Is there a trick to getting it to work?
I tried deleting everything in your sample except:
Section "InputDevice"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
(I'm trying to use a UK keyboard layout.) Did I delete too much?
Note the FAQ (4.5) talks about this, but doesn't say anything about
XF86Config. I also have no XF86Config man page. I use
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx to start X.
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
David