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Subject: Re: .Xmodmap problems after upgrading to Xorg 7.5
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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