Re: Belgian keyboard and other windows manager

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am a beginner with cygwin, while I know how to use Linux (not as an expert
> yet).
> 
> When I start xwin with startxwin.bat, the default keyboard in the xterm
> appears to be querty and the default window manager appears to be twm.
> 
> I have 2 questions:
> 
> 1/ How can I define the default keyboard to be Belgian (as in windows and
> cygwin) and

Cygwin/Xfree uses the same keyboard configuration as the Xserver from
linux. You will need a modified modmap to tell the xserver, which key
produces which sign. 
You can generate this file with xkeycaps or extrat on from your linux box
by running "xmodmap -pke". This prints a file which should configure 
your keyboard in the same way as it is on your linux box. 
If it's the same layout as used on french keyboards, you can get it from
http://www-usercgi.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xmodmap.fr.bz2  

> 
> 2/ how can I use another window manager, for example xfce ?
Yes you can. Get the package from one of the mirrors, install it and
replace the call of twm by xfce.


bye
	ago
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