Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all
Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>:
> On 27 Sep 2007, s. keeling wrote:
> > Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>:
> > > 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
> > >
> > > Try this in your .bashrc:
> > >
> > > if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
> >
> > usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
> > if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
> > /usr/bin/xmodmap $usermodmap
> > else
>
> Unfortunately, neither of these works for me. The problem appears to be
> that $DISPLAY is not set. I have tried setting various values for it
If you've been expecting this to work for the console, that's your
error. X Window defines the DISPLAY variable. If you're not running
X, xmodmap is irrelevant. Xmodmap is an X application.
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