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Re: X startup... (was Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys)



On Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:03, Thomas Otto wrote:
> >>>> Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap
> >>>> which i load when I login.
> >>>
> >>> It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no
> >>> better myself. :)
> >
> > But where *is* this keymap that will be read at the start of an X session
> > on Debian 3.0. r1 /testing?
>
> Um, yes, I forgot to mention.
> In theory you just create a ~/.xsession and the scripts in
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d which take care of your X login will execute this
> upon start, i.e. don't forget  "exec /bash/to/windowmanager" in the last
> line.
> YET this seems also fscked here 

See Debian bug 195845 for a patch to fix this problem. It shows up if you're 
using KDM or GDM and selecting a specific session manager (as opposed to the 
default).

> I gave up trying to understand the Xsession.d chaos b/c even simple
> "echo var is $THISVAR now" for debugging made the script exit (maybe due
> to "exec > "$ERRFILE" 2>&1" in the caller?).

BTW, For debugging these, I always echo into some /tmp/file so I can see what 
was executed before all heck breaks loose.

Frank



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