Bug#444025: xinit: xmodmap no longer run at startup
reassign 444025 xserver-xorg-core
forcemerge 443044 444025
thank you
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Package: xinit
> Version: 1.0.5-1
> Severity: important
>
> I have had this line in .xinitrc for months or years and it has always
> worked: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap"
>
> For the last couple of weeks it has stopped working; there is no error
> message but the file is not read. I can still run it manually for each
> xterm but that is not really very useful.
>
> I tried adding the same line to ~/.bashrc and this worked, but it also
> had the effect of inactivating ssh and ping between computers on my
> network because bash was trying to run xmodmap in a console and failing.
>
Will be fixed in the next upload of xorg-server, merging with other bugs.
Brice
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