On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 19:54 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 16.04.2005 schrieb VB um 19:33: > > > I'm trying to map Caps Lock to Esc on X startup but > > everyhwere I've placed the commmand "xmodmap <path to > > my home dir>/.Xmodmap" has not taken effect once I've > > logged into an X session. I know the .Xmodmap file is > > correct since manually running "xmodmap <path to my > > home dir>/.Xmodmap" once I'm in X works. I have > > disabled Xkeyboard since the two apparently do not > > work well together. > > I think ~/.Xmodmap is only read when using xdm. > > > How can I remap keys using xmodmap or xkeyboard > > extension??? Nothing seems to work. > > Not the first time I post this. I am using following to remap my mouse > buttons: > > $ cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xmouse.sh > > #!/bin/sh > # /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xmouse.sh > # Required for the configuration of a 5-button mouse > /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" > > Alexander > Hi, I have some codes in my xmodmap to make the numlock key irrelevant. I found the same problem. I solved it by putting the call to 'xmodmap' in my session startup. I used 'Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions' to add a 'settings' to the 'current session' at priority 50 '/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap' This is the only thing I found that worked. Regards Neil.
