[xserver-commit] cygwin-x-doc/faq cygwin-xfree-faq.xml,1.15,1.16 i18n.xml,1.2,1.3
Alexander Gottwald
xserver-commit@pdx.freedesktop.org
Committed by: ago
Update of /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq
In directory pdx:/tmp/cvs-serv10043
Modified Files:
cygwin-xfree-faq.xml i18n.xml
Log Message:
Marked Alt-Gr with XP Powertoys as solved
Added section about wrong AltGr key name
Index: cygwin-xfree-faq.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -d -r1.15 -r1.16
--- a/cygwin-xfree-faq.xml 8 Mar 2004 13:27:29 -0000 1.15
+++ b/cygwin-xfree-faq.xml 8 Mar 2004 14:52:21 -0000 1.16
@@ -97,7 +97,9 @@
<date>2004-03-08</date>
<authorinitials>alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de</authorinitials>
<revremark>Changed the OpenSSH config file location.
-Reported by tulitanssi <at> luukku <dot> com</revremark>
+Reported by tulitanssi <at> luukku <dot> com
+Marked Alt-Gr with XP Powertoys as solved.
+Added section about wrong AltGr key name.</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
Index: i18n.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/faq/i18n.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3
--- a/i18n.xml 29 Feb 2004 14:20:53 -0000 1.2
+++ b/i18n.xml 8 Mar 2004 14:52:21 -0000 1.3
@@ -119,15 +119,31 @@
What can I do?</para>
</question>
<answer>
-<para>Unfortunately there is not much you can do. Somehow Powertoys on Windows
-XP causes the algorithm for AltGr detection to fail. So the easy solution is
-to disable Powertoys.</para>
-<para>The second (and hard) solution is to debug the keyboardhandling code and
-determine how the two messages which are sent by Windows when AltGr is pressed
-can be distinguished from a combined Alt and Control press.</para>
+<para>This problem is solved in recent Cygwin/X releases. Use cygwin setup to
+upgrade the XFree86-xserv package.
+</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+<qandaentry>
+<question id="alt-gr-with-old-x">
+<para>AltGr does not work properly when connecting to other unices or to old
+XFree86.</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>The older X11 releases on the various commercial unices define the AltGr
+key as ModeSwitch, MetaR, AltR or similar. Cygwin/X expects it to be
+ISO_Level3_Switch. For reasons unknown to us this is reset when loggin into
+the remote host. As far as we don't have access to such a machine we are unable
+to track this down and find a reason.
+</para>
+<para>
+Sometimes it does help to run <screen>DISPLAY=:0.0 setxkbmap <replaceable>languagecode</replaceable>
+</screen>
+from a cygwin shell. For more information see <xref linkend="q-non-U.S.-keyboard-layout"/>.
+</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>