[xmodmap] Problem with e and n

[walter harms]

Dirk Wallenstein schrieb:
> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 09:56:35 walter harms wrote:
>> xkbcomp -xkm ${DISPLAY} -o keymap.xkm
>> Warning:          Could not load keyboard geometry for :0.0
>>                   BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>>                   Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry
>>
>>
>> xkbprint  keymap.xkm >keymap.ps
>> Error:            Couldn't read geometry from XKM file "keymap.xkm"
>>                   Exiting
> 
> 
> The keymap you get from the $DISPLAY does not contain the geometry, you must
> obtain it per setxkbmap/xkbcomp
> For example:
>         setxkbmap -model pc104 -print | xkbcomp -xkm -o keymap.xkm -
> Note the '-' at the end.
> Feeding keymap.xkm to xkbprint should now work.
> 
> By omitting '-model xxx' you get the geometry for the current keymap
> 
> 

yeees, this works for me. thx a lot.

perhaps you can spend some time to upgrade the kbd tools so so work as expected and give
useful error msg (if any).

re,
 wh