Re: How to disable certain keys
On 17/08/2015, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 16 Aug 2015 at 21:18:10 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 07:57:20PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>> > On Sun 16 Aug 2015 at 20:21:05 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > It still comes down to why intrude on the user's province? One file,
>> > .xsessionrc, and one line in the file to disable the caps lock. The
>> > desire to go to root to do things easily done from a user account is
>> > prevalent. Is it worth having a multi-user system?
>>
>> Nit-pick: my solution goes to root to enable the user to do things in
>> a specific way. The content of .Xmodmap (or its presence at all) is
>> the user's realm.
>
> It cannot be set up by users without root privileges and does nothing
> that the stock X won't do. That makes it inelegant, over-engineered and
> therefore unnecessary. :)
>
> ~/.xmodmap with the contents "keycode 54 = z". ~/.xsessionrc with the
> contents "xmodmap .xmodmap". Two files; two lines; total control.
>
>
I appear to not have a file .xsessionrc
I do have a file.xinputrc
Should the line "xmodmap .xmodmap" be inserted in the .xinputrc file,
in the absence of an .xsessionrc file?
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Bret Busby
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