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Alt-Gr, Windows XP,
- From: "Christian Winter" <christian_winter at web dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:10:42 +0200
- Subject: Alt-Gr, Windows XP,
- Organization: http://freemail.web.de/
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Dear people,
let me propose a pragmatic way to solve the Alt-Gr problem when using non-US keyboards in an ssh session to some linux server under Xfree86 running Windows XP:
(tested for German keyboard layout) :
uninstall PowerToys from Windows XP
get xmodmap (e.g. from http://home.imf.au.dk/hellmund/xmodmap/)
rename to .xmodmap and put into cygwin-home directory
start cygwin-shell
type startx
(German Umlauts do not work here)
xhost + servername
shh -l username servername
(german Umlauts work here, so do Alt-Gr)
if BackSpace does not work in new xterm : put the following line into the .profile on the server home directory:
xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace'
At least it works for me.
Thank you for this fantastic software.
Regards,
Christian
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