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Re: XKB not working
- From: Uwe Schmidtmann <U dot Schmidtmann at visicon-online dot de>
- To: Edmund Urbani <emu at emu dot no-ip dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:58:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: XKB not working
- References: <3CC84735.E39D39D@emu.no-ip.org>
Hello.
I had a lot of problems with keyboard layouts as well with the older
version of X on cygnu. Since them I am still using the following lines
in my local .xinitrc:
sysmodmap=/etc/german.key
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
This is a workaround but it works. The Keyboard mapping was read with
xmodmap from my linux box...
I do not want to post the keyboard file here, but in case you need it,
just let me know.
Regards,
Uwe
Edmund Urbani wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday i installed cygwin with XFree 4.2.0. Everything worked fine
> from the start except that I could not set it up for my german keyboard
> layout. All I get, when I try to use eg. setxkbmap is a popup window
> (outside the X server as a normal Win2000-window) with this error
> message:
>
> Failed assertion
> fds_on_hold !=NULL
> at line 643 of file
> /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
>
> Other tools using XKB (like Kde Control Center) cause the same error.
>
> I found an earlier post from Charles L. Werner on this list, who appears
> to have (had?) the same problem, but there does not seem to be a helpful
> reply to that one.
> As a workaround I am currently using xmodmap in the X server's startup
> scripts, but I would really prefer to use XKB instead.
>
> So, any ideas what might be wrong with my X server? What is this
> fds_on_hold variable and that dtable.cc file all about, anyway?
>
> Edmund
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