Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 25 Sep 2007, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc
>> contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many
>> months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not
>> being run.
>> I tried putting the full path to xmodmap, which seemed to work at first
>> but then failed. Next, I put the command in ~/.bashrc. That does work
>> but it has the undesirable effect of making bash try to run xmodmap even
>> when X is not running. The result was that pinging and ssh between
>> computers on my network kept failing.
>
> Try this in your .bashrc:
>
> if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
>     if (which xmodmap); then
>         xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
>     fi
> fi > /dev/null
>
>> So at present I'm stuck, unless I can find something in the bash man
>> page to cater for the issue (perhaps a conditional clause in .bashrc?).
>> Meawhile I think I'll put a bug report in for xinit. 
>
> What version of xinit? What O/S are you using?
>
>> Has no one else seen this behaviour? (I think someone on the Slacware
>> newsgroup has.)
>> Anthony
>
>
> I've never seen it, but I don't assume that xmodmap will automatically be 
> called.
>
> Note, the code I wrote has a problem. You need to find a way to test that 
> xmodmap hasn't already been invoked for the X server. To do this, you might 
> test if your key mappings are already in xmodmap before invoking it.
>
> BTW, is it possible to store a semaphore on the X server? I'm thinking that 
> xrdb could be used like so:
>
> echo 'sem*xmodmap_done: yes' | xrdb -merge
>
> But perhaps there are other ways.

Thanks to all for advice and suggestions. Meanwhile, I've had a reply
from the maintainer of xserver-xorg, who tells me that this is a known
bug and will be fixed in the upcoming release.

Anthony


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