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Re: Xnest and keyboard layout
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Ariel Burbaickij <ariel dot burbaickij at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:12:05 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Xnest and keyboard layout
- References: <3058f9b404100401567c207680@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> Hello dear fellow mailing list subscribers,
> keyboard layouts differ between host
> X server and Xnest server (I am not
> very familiar with what is called "
> default English layout" but I think
> it is what Xnest uses, so obviously
> host Xserver does not use it ;-).
> QUestion is: Where does Xnest
> take it keyboard layout from?
it is configured either via a strange commandline
parameter -xkbmap or after start you can just
call "setxkbmap layoutcode" in xnest to set the
layout
> Should be the same source that
> caters also for host Xserver or
> not
-xkbmap is a parameter which is supported by all XKB
enabled xservers. But the parameter requires a compiled
keymap (see xkbcomp) so XWin and Xorg use a different
scheme where the keymap is compiled at startup from
a textual description.
bye
ago
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