AW: keyboard behaviour with cygwin/xfree86

["Frank Meier" <fmeier at ifh dot ee dot ethz dot ch>]

> > I read in one of the mailing lists that I should load
> > the correct keyboard map using the xmodmap command,
> > e.g. "xmodmap xmodmap.fr" or something like that
> > (for a frech keyboard in this case).
> > Is that right ???
> > If so:
> > How to get the correct keyboard map ???
> I have collected some of them on http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree.
> 
> > Where to put this map ???
> copy it to /etc/Xmodmap.window_host_name
> > Where to put the xmodmap command ??? 
> > ( before or after the XWin.exe call in startxwin.bat) ????
> Best would be in xdm config. Check your Xsetup from the xdm dir. 
> If there is
> a line "hostmodmap=${ETCDIR}/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}" and later 
> "test -r $hostmodmap && $xmodmap $hostmodmap" then it should already work.
> Otherwise add a line "xmodmap /etc/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}".

According to my survey, Xsetup is not executed!

After retrieving http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xmodmap.de.bz2, unpacking and copying to /etc/X11

$ bzip2 -d xmodmap.de.bz2
$ cp xmodmap.de /etc/X11/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}

and calling 

$ xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}

in a xterm, the keyboardmap was changed correctly.  Later, I added this line
to /usr/X11R6/startwin.bat:

...
set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
start /B XWin -screen 0 640x768x8 -engine 4
start /B xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap.127.0.0.1
start /B twm
...

Using the environment variable DISPLAY of MS-DOS/MS-Windows does
not work because ':0.0' is not removed.

start /B xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*}

Does not work because '${DISPLAY%:*}' is avaiable in a /bin/*sh only which
is not running at that time.  You can execute xmodmap in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin
as well by adding:

#! /bin/sh
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
....
XWin -screen 0 640x480x8 &
xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap.${DISPLAY%:*} &
twm &
....

But I am still looking for a better place to set the keyboard.

Best regards,
Frank