Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup
On 01 Feb 2010, Joey Morris wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:13:41AM +0000:
> > On 31 Jan 2010, Joey Morris wrote:
> > > I start my X session with startx, and lately I've noticed that some
> > > (but not all) of my .Xmodmap settings are being lost once my X session
> > > is up. I think this behavior started sometime in the past month or two.
> > >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I also use startx, with Icewm. I encountered problems with ~/.Xmodmap
> > some time ago. I solved it by trying out various /usr/bin/xmodmap
> > commands on the command line and when I got them working I put them in
> > .xinitrc. I no longer use ~/.Xmodmap.
>
> Thanks. I tried removing the line that loads .Xmodmap from my .xinitrc
> and replacing it with direct calls to xmodmap -e, but that didn't
> help. Just like my method of loading .Xmodmap, the modifier map is
> correct immediately after the calls to xmodmap -e, but once the window
> manager is up and I have an xterm, the modifier map is wrong. It looks
> like the keysym command survives, but something moves that second
> Control_L back to the Lock modifer.
>
Did you try running the xmodmap -e e stuff at the command line in an
xterm? That might give you a clearer idea of what is wrong.
Anthony
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