On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Kirsty Hollingworth wrote: > I have installed Cygwin/Xfree86 according to the instructions.As I live > in the UK I got hold of a Xmodmap for the keymappings.I tried running > > %xmodmap Xmodmap.uk > > where Xmodmap.uk is the mapping file from a bash prompt.I now get rather > wierd behaviour.In bash windows (and in xterms running telnet to a linux > box) I find that shift-3 sends #CTRL-M so that # is entered to the prompt. > Also my backspace key prints a ~.CTRL-H still backspaces though. > However in xedit everthing works fine. Backspace backspaces and shift-3 > prints a pound sign.Any suggestions?
What happens if you use: setxkbmap uk instead? Some other pointers: http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Intkeyb/ And the oh-so-confusing: http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/BackspaceDelete/ cygwin is not linux, but both use XFree and both use posix and gnu, so there are enough points of similarity. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \
