Re: kdm init files and xmodmap

[Tal Eisenberg <eisental@012.net.il>]

I realize that I'm again "stealing" the thread... I just wanted to say that I 
really had no intention of doing that (How does the list server know i 
replied if I changed the subject?). Anyways, sorry for the inconvinience I 
will post my question again on a new thread.

Thanks for pointing that out, Tal.

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:57, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Please do not steal the thread by just replying to a conversation in
> mid-stride.  Replying to an existing thread of conversation and just
> changing the subject line is called thread stealing.  It's considered
> rude.  If you want to start a new thread of conversation please just
> start a new email message and not a reply to an existing message.
>
> You can see how your message is stuck in the middle of the other
> thread of conversation "Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it
> ?" by looking here.  People not interested in that conversation will
> delete the entire thread and very probably never see or read your
> message which will be deleted along with the entire rest of the thread.
>
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200306/threads.html#00
>376
>
> Tal Eisenberg wrote:
> > I have been running xmodmap manualy on every startup for making the
> > extra buttons work with X. As this is quite annoying to do everytime
> > I want to put the xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc line on some init script that
> > runs on X startup (I'm using KDM). The problem is I just can't find
> > any file that will actually execute that line and add the new
> > buttons. Where should I put it?
>
> KDM starts X which runs Xsession which will look in .Xmodmap.  If you
> put your xmodmap into $HOME/.Xmodmap it should be read at start up
> time.
>
> Bob