On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:33 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 at 11:47 -0000, quoth Craig White: > > =>On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:20 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > =>> On Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 at 08:21 -0000, quoth Craig White: > =>> > =>> =>Again on Acer Aspire One > =>> => > =>> =>Looking at this page from Arch Linux page on Acer Aspire One... > =>> => > =>> =>http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#Additional_function_keys > =>> => > =>> =>which suggests that I create mappings for some of the function keys so > =>> =>they do things like control volume, etc. and then to add a link to > =>> =>execute the mappings in .xinitrc > =>> => > =>> =>Well, F10 doesn't have .xinitrc but it does have /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > =>> =>and xinitrc-common but I suspect that a manual edit of either of those > =>> =>is not really something to do with any permanence. > =>> => > =>> =>What's the suggested method for adding xmodmap entries? Put into a file > =>> =>in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ? > =>> => > =>> =>Craig > =>> => > =>> =>PS: I edited the Acer Aspire One page on FedoraProject wiki to reflect > =>> =>the few easy steps to make the built-in camera work (for those with an > =>> =>Acer Aspire One). > =>> => > =>> > =>> Look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common > =>> > =>> All you need to do is to create a ~/.Xmodmap file and it should get pulled > =>> in. > =>---- > =>makes sense but doesn't seem to like me ;-( > => > =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ ls -al ~/.Xmodmap > =>-rw-rw-r-- 1 craig craig 220 2009-01-21 06:00 /home/craig/.Xmodmap > => > =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ cat .Xmodmap > =>keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute > =>keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume > =>keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume > =>keycode 223 = XF86Standby > =>keycode 239 = XF86KbdBrightnessDown > =>keycode 123 = XF86KbdBrightnessUp > =>keycode 210 = XF86Display > => > =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ dumpkeys|grep 123 > =>keycode 123 = > => > =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ dumpkeys|grep 174 > =>keycode 174 = > => > =>This is after creating ~/.Xmodmap and logging out and logging back in. > =>Went a step further and rebooted - same. > => > =>;-( > => > > I just looked. It looks like the ~/.Xmodmap doesn't get pulled in unless > there is a ~/.Xkbmap > > I don't know what that is or why it's there, BUT! it looks like if you > just create an empty file called ~/.Xkbmap then it should all work. > > The relevant phrase in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common is this: ---- that totally makes sense but I couldn't make it work. I took the easy way out and assigned the keys via systemsettings (KDE 4) Keyboard => Keyboard Shortcuts Thanks Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
