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Re: -xkbmap parameter not working?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Hrafnkell Eiríksson <he at klaki dot net>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 20:34:56 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: -xkbmap parameter not working?
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Hrafnkell Eiríksson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can't get the -xkbmap parameter to work. I want to use it to
> set the keyboard layout to Icelandic. Issuing "setxkbmap is" from
> a shell after I log in works (though I have to issue it twice for
> some reason). I though that adding "-xkbmap is" to the XWin.exe
> command line should do the trick but it has no effect.
> The XFree installation on my Win2k (cygwin) host has all the
> xkb mapfiles in /usr/X11R6/lib/xkb/
>
> What do I have to do to get this working?
You have to compile a keymap.
xkbcomp -xkm -m is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/is.xkm
then
XWin -xkbmap is
bye
ago
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