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RE: XFree installation and french keyboard
- To: "'David Soulayrol'" <david dot soulayrol at ago dot fr>, "'cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: XFree installation and french keyboard
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:48:56 -0400
please check
http://www.gotti.org for European keyboards
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Soulayrol [mailto:david.soulayrol@ago.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:09 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: XFree installation and french keyboard
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I've just installed XFree on top off Cygwin. I noted a little problem
> while trying to install the XFree-4.0.3-devel package; it
> didn't want to
> untar some files (it's a problem of permission i remember).
>
> By the way, i don't understand why i have no files under /etc or
> /etc/X11 ... Did i miss an important package ? I have some links to
> files under /etc from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/, and nothing (i
> would like at
> least some config file like XF86config) under /etc.
>
> At last, a true XFree question.
> I'm french, and so i would like to have a french keyboard
> layout. I know
> i can use 'xmodmap', so i included it in startxwin and i found in
> archives a french map. Thanks.
>
> Now, i'd like to launch my server this way ;
> 'XWin -query machine -from here'
>
> This time, i don't know how to fix the keyboard. I found some option
> named '-xkbmap', but i don't know what argument i must pass to it.
>
> Any idea ? Thanks.
>