Re: How to disable certain keys
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On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:31:32PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 16 Aug 2015 at 09:28:24 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> > for xmodmap, there's this snippet in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80x11xmodmap:
>
> This file is a non-Debian file. It is not needed for the simple task at
> hand. I doubt it would ever be needed.
That's right: according to Debian Policy, files in /etc are the sysadmin's
realm. That's me, on my machine :-)
> There is rarely any need to alter any of the scripts in Xsession.d or
> add to the number there. Everything a user wants to do can be done in
> $HOME. Debian's X configuration is very flexible.
It didn't read my $HOME/.Xmodmap. I wanted it to do this. The place to
achieve that is in Xsession.d. What would you propose as an alternative?
Yes, there's an $HOME/.xsessionrc. I could stick everything into that.
> briand@aracnet.com has give a good account of how to use a ~/.xsession.
> Unfortunately, it is probably not suitable to put xmodmap commands (or
> any other commands) in it without starting a window manager also.
Should work too (my file is called ~/.xsessionrc, though)
> The solution is to put the commands Thomas Schmit has provided in a
> created ~/.xsessionrc. A two-minute (not two-year) job. :)
See above. It's a two minute job any way you slice it :-)
> > Again, your desktop environment might provide other mechanisms for doing things
> > "at start of the X session" -- or perhaps other mechanisms to change the key
> > mappings.
>
> All DMs read the files in /etc/X11/Xsession and, by extension. the user
> provided ones. But a user might feel more comfortable using the DE
> facilities.
I've had mixed experiences under Gnome (the DE regularly resetting things
I'd set via xmodmap, taking the values out of some gconf-y key-value
store). But YMMV.
Regards
- -- tomás
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