On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 04:50:17PM +0200, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is anyone using startx (with Xwrapper) and a non-us keymap (in my case,
> 'de') in ~/.xserverrc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc?
> 
> I have found that the X server will not be able to find de.xkm in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/. Instead it will use /var/tmp as the
> base directory, so copying/linking de.xkm there helps to work around
> the problem.

Oh man, this bug. It was a strange problem and it never bothered me so much
to take the time to find the reason why it didn't work.

Bernd