On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Cee Rainer wrote: > > I do not succeed in setting my german keyboard (portable PC, 88 > > keys) under Cygwin XFree86. I have read the FAQ's and the hints on > > the Chemnitz homepage > > (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/#config). > > I do not know how applicable to Cygwin Xfree86 those hints are. AFAIK, the goal of Cygwin XFree86 is to automatically detect the proper settings from Windows when possible.
> > This is what I did so far: > > > > - I have copied the XF86Config sample file into the directory > > etc/X11/XF86Config, which I first had to create, and unpacked it > > I think you meant /etc/X11/. If that directory did not exist, you have an installation problem. Please then see http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html and *attach* an *uncompressed* cygcheck.out as requested. This would be a good idea anyway. The XF86Config file should go in /etc/X11/. But, IIRC, until recently at least, this file was ignored. > > - I have uncommented the lines > > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > > > > Nevertheless I still have the US keyboard settings. It seems as if the > > config file is completely ignored. My /tmp directory is not mounted at > > all. I am using the latest Cygwin version (1.5.5-1.) > > As above, depending on your version, it may be. But, I suspect, you put it in the wrong place. I did not understand the relevance on the /tmp reference. > What tells /tmp/XWin.log? > Alexander meant to please also attach this file. Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444
