The **REAL** answer to your question is found in the mail archives. See "Re: xmodmap, xkb and XF86Config" by Laurent Pinchart dated Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:25:56 +0200.
To answer the "what happens if..." below: the answer is it crashes with a horrible error message, which translated means "Please develop me more. I don't feel comfortable under Windows." Nigel Hathaway *********************************** Barnabas Projects Limited Tel: +44 117 937 4197 Internet: www.bprj.co.uk 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 / \ --------------------------------------------------------- This message sent using EMUmail -- http://www.emumail.com --------------------------------------------------------- Jumping through hoops to get E-mail on the road? You've got two choices: Join the circus, or use MollyMail. Molly Mail -- http://www.mollymail.com
