RE: Configuring UK keyboard and xterm in Cygwin/Xfree86

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> 
> 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?

You can use xmodmap and copy a UK xmodmap file from Linux.

> 
> 2. My xterm sessions don't close properly and I have to kill 
> them with 'kill -9'. 

Did you try xterm.exe from "fixes" directory?

>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?

No It will cause any problems.  But xterm is not hard coded in source code.
under var/xfce you will find various configuration files which you can edit
with vi.  Replace the xterm with mxterm in one of those files. I do not
remember exact name of the file, and right now I do not have access to a
machine with Cygwin/XFree86

> 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 - 

That is a bug in mxterm.  Author of mxterm advice not compile with menu
options.  I do not know if it had been fixed or not.  The link to mxterm
home page is:

http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa/index_mxterm.html


>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.


It pretty much compiles out-of-the-box.  Ungzip and untar the mxterm archive
in a temporary directory, cd to it and type
./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6
followed by make then make install.  That was it.  You should have
Cygwin/Xfree86 and lates LessTif from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8596&release_id=47118,
installed

Suhaib

Thanks,


Roger

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