Bug#443044: x11-xserver-utils: xmodmap run at X startup no longer takes effect

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Henrik Enberg wrote:
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
>   
>> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:00 +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote:
>>     
>>> Package: x11-xserver-utils
>>> Version: 7.3+1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> When starting X, running xmodmap from e.g. ~/.xsession no longer
>>> changes any mappings.  Strange thing is, running xmodmap from a
>>> terminal after X has started still works.
>>>       
>> This could be due to a server reset which happens whenever the last
>> client disconnects. A server reset is usually noticeable due to the
>> server re-programming the video mode. You can avoid resets by starting
>> the Xserver with the -noreset command line option or by keeping a client
>> running in the background.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, neither of these workarounds yield any results.  I can
> clearly see the video switching going away, but my xmodmap settings
> still don't take effect.
>   


What do you have in your .xsession? Mine seems to work fine, I will try
to reproduce the problem with your .xsession here.

Also, please check the output of xmodmap -pke after starting X so that
we are sure that the xmodmap changes were not applied at all (and not
just applied to the keymap but not used by the server for some obscur
reason).

Brice