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Re: Keyboard confusion


Robert White wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have noticed that when I am using the Xwin it seems to detect that I am using
> an Amercan Keyboard, rather than the British one. 

The XServer is not detecting anything. You'll have to configure it in 
/etc/X11/XF86Config. 

> This is not the behaviour
> outside the X server. (I.e in a cygwin command prompt window the keyboard map is
> correct).
> 
> Not having the XF86config I understand from the documentation that Xwin is
> configured from a combination of the native env and command line switches.

Maybe the XF86Config file is not installed by default but the newest release now
read this file if it exists. A sample file can be found at
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2

> I have checked the region settings and they are set to United Kingdom, althougth
> the checkbox set as system wide locale is not selected.

The windows settings have no effect to XWin.

bye
    ago

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