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Re: Non US-Keyboard problem
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:36:55 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Non US-Keyboard problem
- References: <opr62e83lzx86m70@tux-server>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Rado Rethmann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've installed the latest XFREE86 (4.3.0-2) and xorg-Base (6.7.0.0) on my
> XP-machine.
> I customized the XWin line in startxwin.bat to:
uninstall the XFree86 packages. They are superseeded by the xorg packages.
> run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -xkbrules xfree86 -xkbmodel logicordless
> -xkblayout "de,us" -xkboptions "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>
> When I run XWin, I do not get the german keyboard, no üöä (ue/oe/ae), what
> I will get is \374\366\344 instead.
This sounds like the bash umlaut problem. Check the faq on http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html
> When shifting to the US-layout I get the correct [;' chars.
> In neither layout I can use the cursor keys, they end up in 2D2C2A2B
> (left/right/up/down).
Is numlock activated? This may conflict with the cursor keys.
bye
ago
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