Hello ! I installed Cygwin and Xfree86 these days on my computer. Actually I have no experience with them. I wanted to make the X-Window-System accepting german keyboard-layout, therefore I downloaded a german Xmodmap-file. When I use the command "xmodmap /path-to-modmap-file/xmodmad.de" in bash or xterm, I have the german keyboard-settings.
But when I try to automize the Xmodmap-procedure for startup, I mess up as I actually do not know all to much about the corresponding mechanisms. So I tried to do everything as said in the FAQ (see below). Neither did I find the mentioned file "/etc/X11/xdm/XSetup" nor a similar one. There was no "XSetup"-file on my Computer at all. I created one and put it into the mentioned directory but that didn't help. (Somebody already told me that under UNIX-systems upper- and lower-case-spelling is important.) Any hints will be greafully accepted. Yours sincerely Ulrich ________________________________________________________________________ 4.5. How do I get my non-U.S. keyboard modmap to be installed when using xdmcp? This answer assumes that your non-U.S. keyboard modmap is located in /etc/X11 and is called xmodmap.country_code, where country_code is your two-letter standardized country code (e.g. Australia = au, Deutschland = de, France = fr, Japan = jp, United Kingdom = uk). First, you must create a script that tells xmodmap to load the modmap for your non-U.S. keyboard layout. One way to run xmodmap on X Server startup when using xdmcp is to add the following two lines to /etc/X11/xdm/XSetup: #!/bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap /etc/X11/xmodmap.country_code Now you must tell xdm to run the screen setup script on startup. In /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, add the following line: DisplayManager*setup: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup.
