Italian keyboard and cygwin/xfree

[Massimo De Benedetti <debenedetti at frascati dot enea dot it>]

Hi,
I know that this subject has already been dealt in this mailing list but 
apparently I can not sort things out. I am running cygwin/xfree on XP 
(english version) but with an italian keyboard. The program uses always 
what I believe is an us keyboard (it could well be something else but it 
certainly is not an italian one). Here is the startxwin.sh that I am 
using to start up an x terminal

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XWin -multiwindow -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -keyboard ItKeyboard &

xterm -sl 1000 -sb -leftbar -fn 9x15 -ms red -fg black -bg white -n 
'Xterm' -T 'Xterm' -e /usr/bin/bash &

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Here is the XF86Config-4 file that I use

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Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier "ItKeyboard"
       Driver "Keyboard"
       Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
       Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
       Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

#
# The following sections are just added to fulfill the requirements of the
# configfile parser and have no effect on the configuration of the
# Cygwin/XFree86 XServer.
#

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "dummy"
   Driver      "dummy"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier  "dummy"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier  "dummy"
   Device      "dummy"
   Monitor     "dummy"
EndSection

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And finally here is the XWin.log file that I get

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ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
(++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown.
(WW) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
(==) FontPath set to 
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h: 1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 994 1280
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 994 1280
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1280 h 994 r 1280 l 0 b 
994 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 994 depth: 32
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1280 height: 994 depth: 32 
size image: 5089280
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1280
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 
bpp 32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitWM - Returning.
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
InitOutput - Returning.
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
(==) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000410"
(==) Using preset keyboard for "Italian" (00000410), type "4"
(++) Using keyboard "ItKeyboard" as primary keyboard
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
(**) XKB: model: "pc102"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "it"
(**) XKB: layout: "it"
(**) Option "XkbOptions" "(null)"
(**) XKB: options: "(null)"
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc102" Layout = "it" Variant = "(null)" 
Options = "(null)"
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, 
removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, 
removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, 
removing from list!
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 640 497
winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling setlocale ()
winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - setlocale () returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - XInitThreads () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened 
the display.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully 
opened the display.

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For what I understood everything looks ok but my keyboard does not work 
properly in the xterm nor does it work in every other application that I 
launch from the xterm. Is there anything that I overlooked?
Here is the list of the characters that I get typing the first row of my 
keyboard+shift in the x terminal:

~!@#$%^&*()_+

Here is what you would get from an italian keyboard:

|!"£$%&/()=?^

Thank you,
Massimo

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Massimo De Benedetti