Configuring UK keyboard and xterm in Cygwin/Xfree86

[Roger Broadbent <RBroadbent at wilco-int dot com>]

Hi,

I've installed Cygwin/Xfree86 successfully along with xfce. I have two main
issues, that I can't find simple resolutions for:

1. My keyboard acts as a US keyboard - I would like to change it to a UK
keyboard. Do I just use xmodmap, or is there a better way?

2. My xterm sessions don't close properly and I have to kill them with 'kill
-9'. This is particularly annoying as it appears that xterm is hardcoded as
the terminal emulator in xfce. I could put a symbolic link to mxterm in my
path, but could this cause any problems? Also, the mxterm menus (accessed
with control-left/right/middle-click) don't behave very well - I need to
release control for the left-click menu and release control then left-click
(while holding down right-click) for the middle button menu. The
right-button menu doesn't seem to work properly at all - I seem to be able
to toggle each font independently. Searching for mxterm on Google brings up
a selection of links but no obvious central repository for mxterm code, so
I'm not even sure _which_mxterm I have (I got it from
http://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/contrib
/). I'm researching the mxterm quandry, but I'm happy to get a working xterm
anyhow.

I don't have any experience of compiling for cygwin, but I'm happy to give
it a go if necessary.

Thanks,


Roger

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