Re: Mississippi -> Miiippi

["Dai Itasaka" <ditasaka at silverbacksystems dot com>]

I did:

 setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout us -option ""

XWin was invoked without any option in startxwin.sh. (XWin &)

The keyboard is a normal US keyboard. (101? It's from Dell)


) Are you installing your own keymap?
)
) Are you using an XF86Config file?
)
) What keyboard layout is Windows configured for?
)
) Harold
)
) Dai Itasaka wrote:
)
) > Hello list,
) >
) > Here is what I did:
) >
) > - Opened several tcsh windows (as separate MS Window apps)
) > - Started X by invoking "startxwin.sh" which gave me one big root window
) >   and one xterm window
) > - In this xterm window, I did:
) >     > xhost 10.0.1.2
) >     > ssh myname@10.0.1.2
) >     (now I'm logged in)
) >     > setenv DISPLAY 10.0.1.1:0
) >     (10.0.1.1 is the Windows PC with cygwin running, 10.0.1.2 is a Linux
box)
) >     > twm &
) >     (now the desktop is managed by twm)
) > - Opened a few more xterm windows from twm and already opened xterm
) > - Went back to one of the tcsh window and did:
) >     > setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
) >     > xterm
) >
) > This opened up one xterm window in the X desktop with "bash-2.05b" prompt.
) > In this xterm window, I couldn't type the letter 's'. Not only I couldn't
) > type, but I was unable to yank and copy a string with 's'. For example,
) > I yanked a string "tcsh" in another xterm window and pasted it in this
) > troubled xterm window, it displayed "tch". For another example, I yanked
) > the word "Mississippi" from /usr/share/dict/words and pasted it and got
) > "Miiippi". I had no such problem in any other xterm windows but this.
) >
) > What was happening?
) >
) >
) >>uname -a
) >
) > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myname 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
) > Cygwin
) >
) >