Re: How to disable certain keys
On 16/08/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/08/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16/08/2015, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:04:17PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>>> On 15/08/2015, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>>>> > Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> > That same right-click menu has an option to save the settings to a
>>>> > .xmodmap file and shows how to include that file on start.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Okay; whilst the option to save the settings to the .xmodmap file, is
>>>> not explicit, and I had to guess it (something like "Write settings"
>>>> from memory), in the response to doing that, it returns a dialgue box
>>>> that states "You should modify your login script to include a line
>>>> like .... "
>>>>
>>>> How do I modify the login script? I do not know the file name or path,
>>>> for the login script.
>>>
>>> That depends a bit on what shell you are using and on your other general
>>> setup. Typically, if your shell is bash, this file will be called
>>> .bash_login (note the dot at the start o the name), and will live in
>>> your
>>> home directory.
>>>
>>> How does the line you are supposed to include look?
>>>
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Unfortunately, like with many other message boxes/dialogue boxes,
>> copying and pasting, is not possible.
>>
>> In the particular message box, is
>>
>> "
>> Wrote output to the file
>> /home/bret/.xmodmap-bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504
>>
>> You should modify your login script to include a line like
>> xmodmap ~/.xmodmap-`uname-n`
>> (those are backquotes.)
>> <OK>
>> "
>>
>> "
>> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$ cat .bash_login
>> cat: .bash_login: No such file or directory
>> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$ sudo cat
>> /home/bret/.bask_login
>> sudo: unable to resolve host bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504
>> [sudo] password for bret:
>> cat: /home/bret/.bask_login: No such file or directory
>> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$ sudo cat
>> /home/bret/.bash_login
>> sudo: unable to resolve host bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504
>> cat: /home/bret/.bash_login: No such file or directory
>> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$
>> "
>>
>
>
> So, it occurred to me, to do an "ls" on ".*" and I got (apart from the
> .<directory name> directories),
>
> "
> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$ ls .*
> .bash_history .bashrc .ICEauthority .profile
> .Xauthority .xmodmap-bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504
> .xsession-errors.old
> .bash_logout .dmrc .pam_environment .sudo_as_admin_successful
> .xinputrc .xsession-errors
> "
>
> So, in running cat .profile, I got
>
> "
> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$ cat .profile
> # ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
> # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
> # exists.
> # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
> # the files are located in the bash-doc package.
>
> # the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
> # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
> #umask 022
>
> # if running bash
> if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
> # include .bashrc if it exists
> if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
> . "$HOME/.bashrc"
> fi
> fi
>
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
> PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
> fi
> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$
> "
>
> So, I asume that this is the applicable file, in the absence of the
> two named .bash* files.
>
> So, after editing that file, I now have
>
> "
> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$ cat .profile
> # ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
> # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
> # exists.
> # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
> # the files are located in the bash-doc package.
>
> # the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
> # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
> #umask 022
>
> # if running bash
> if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
> # include .bashrc if it exists
> if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
> . "$HOME/.bashrc"
> fi
> fi
>
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
> PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
> fi
>
> # attempt to invoke .xmodmap upon login
> xmodmap ~/.xmodmap-`uname-n`
>
> bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE-1504:~$
> "
>
> Which I will test, the next time that I reboot (which probably will
> not be for a few hours).
>
Unfortunately, this path of action, has turned out to be quite harmful.
At first, it took away my <End> key functionality, and now I have lost
the functionality of the cursor control keys, and so have to disable
the numberic keypad, in order to access cursor control positioning.
I have tried to restore the default settings, to no avail.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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