From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 04:07:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11071065678 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:07:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9008FC23 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:07:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1T3ivBU050929; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:44:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:44:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: Jona Joachim In-Reply-To: <20080228140338.GA4034@nirvana.my.domain> Message-ID: <20080228224001.T25008@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20080228140338.GA4034@nirvana.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmodmap not working from xinitrc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:07:06 -0000 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 <|> ]