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Re: Making keyboard remap changes permanent without reboot.



On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 19:15:23 +0200, Bzzzz wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:02:04 +0300
> Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> 
> > Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard
> > and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed:
> > 
> > sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
> > 
> > It worked! But .. after some minutes the swap is reverted back to the 
> > initial config withoud doing sth.
> > 
> > How can that be avoided?
> 
> Unfortunately, there are plenty of places these changes can take
> place (see this link to have an idea:
> http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/05/03/how-to-set-your-compose-key-on-xfce-xubuntu-linux/)
> you can also add ~/.Xmodmap.
> 
> You should ask this question to the XFCE ML.

Why?

>From /usr/share/doc/console-setup/README.Debian

  SHARED KEYBOARD LAYOUT

  In Debian the default keyboard layout is shared between the console
  and X.  It is specified in /etc/default/keyboard.

The OP may very well have read this too. FWIW, I do not observe the
behaviour described.


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