On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:28:22AM +0200, Ulrich Diez wrote: > > 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.) >
How are you starting XFree? XDMCP is used to create a session from another computer; xdm runs on the other computer. It isn't needed on the Cygwin computer. If you are starting the X server with startx, then the xmodmap file goes in ~/.Xmodmap. You can also put it in /etc/X11/Xmodmap to make it the global setting. The instructions in the FAQ regarding xdm are what to do on the remote machine. - Ian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.znark.com/
