RE: XFree installation and french keyboard

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

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.
>