Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:44:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Jona Joachim <jaj@hcl-club.lu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmodmap not working from xinitrc Message-ID: <20080228224001.T25008@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20080228140338.GA4034@nirvana.my.domain> References: <20080228140338.GA4034@nirvana.my.domain>
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jona Joachim wrote: > My .xinitrc has an xmodmap tweak to switch the Ctrl and Caps keys. For > some reason these changes are not applied when I start X, Ctrl is > still Ctrl and Caps is still Caps. However I have to run xmodmap twice > when X has started to actually make it work. It seems like the changes > were applied but somehow not used by X, when I rerun xmodmap it seems > like it switches the keys back to their original states and when I > then run it again it finally works. > > Here's my .xinitrc: [snip] I asked essentially the same question four months ago - see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-October/160815.html - and received a couple of "me too" responses. Now I get to say "me too" as well. Still no fix AFAIK. Anyone? -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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