Xmodmap (or .xinitrc?) broken after xorg upgrade

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Sunday, October 21, 2007 a las 08:38:33PM -0400, Chris Hill escribió:

> About a week ago, I updated my ports, including xorg. Now xmodmap isn't 
> running from ~/.xinitrc like it used to.
> 
> My .xinitrc is the same as it's been for years, so it includes the lines
> if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
>     xmodmap $usermodmap
> fi
> 
> After some experimenting, I find that if I run
> $ xmodmap .Xmodmap
> $ xmodmap .Xmodmap
> ...twice, as shown, in an xterm after X gets going - then my .Xmodmap 
> takes effect.
> 
> If I comment out that section of ~/.xinitrc, then I only have to run
> $ xmodmap .Xmodmap
> once in an xterm. I would like not to have to run xmodmap manually at 
> all, but have .xinitrc take care of it, just as it used to be before the 
> upgrade.
> 
> Any ideas? Many thanks in advance.

I'm facing a similiar problem in Xorg 6.9 and KDE 3.5.4: I tried
to set some xmodmap values in my ~/.xinitrc before launching
the KDE desktop, like:


xmodmap -e "keycode 0x73 =  Mode_switch"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x39 =  n N ntilde Ntilde"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1a =  e E eacute Eacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x26 =  a A aacute Aacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1f =  i I iacute Iacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x1e =  u U uacute Uacute"
xmodmap -e "keycode 0x20 =  o O oacute Oacute"
...
exec startkde

but when X is up the xmodmap's are not in affect. I have to
set them inside X with a small desktop icon.

	matthias

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