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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:04:16 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > 2) a german xmodmap
> >
> > On SuSE-Linux the command
> >
> > xmodmap -pke > Xmodmap.de
> >
> > produced a keybord file that works fine
> > with cygwin-xfree.
>
> Can anybody else verify for me if this works in general?
>
The keyboard code was designed to be 100% compatible.
If it won't work, then it's a bug in Cygwin/XFree.
> > 3) Displaying characters
> >
> > In order to display umlauts the file .inputrc has to be
> > evaluated. Therefore it is necessary to add the option
> > -ls
> > to the xterm and rxvt commands in startxwin.sh
>
> Also, can I get a confirmation on this?
>
xterm -ls starts a login shell, which reads (in this order for bash)
/etc/profile
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile
and
~/.bash_logout
on exit
if not started as login shell, bash reads only
~/.bashrc
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