Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 13:08:59 -0300 From: Joey Mingrone <joey@mingrone.org> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .Xmodmap problems after upgrading to Xorg 7.5 Message-ID: <AANLkTilGOH8Uhc1-YoPkheuRYEP26xfnFCqynP5YFXOy@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005072223130.65590@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <q2kf5b896261005071155zb9de3309i8bbcb8d967b7571c@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005072223130.65590@tripel.monochrome.org>
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On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 23:53, Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2010, Joey Mingrone wrote: > >> My .Xmodmap is included below. =C2=A0When I run >> >> %xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap >> >> the output is: >> >> xmodmap: =C2=A0.Xmodmap:13: =C2=A0bad keysym in remove modifier list >> 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes > > [snip] > > When I encounter an unfamiliar error, I'll paste the entire error text in= to > google. Sometimes that helps. > >> Does anyone know why the keysyms aren't mapping to the keycodes? > > All I can offer is my own .Xmodmap, which is a small subset of yours. > > [snip] > >> remove Lock =3D Caps_Lock >> keysym Caps_Lock =3D Control_L >> add Control =3D Control_L > > It looks like you're trying to end up with two left-control keys and no > CapsLock. Yup, that was intentional. I have no use for capslock. I guess the key point that I should have mentioned is that this all worked for years. Without any changes to my ~/.Xmodmap it just stopped working after upgrading to Xorg-7.5. Thanks for your response. I'll starting digging and see what I can come up with. Cheers, Joey Mingrone
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