Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc
contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many
months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not
being run.

Try this in your .bashrc:

if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
if (which xmodmap); then
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
fi
fi > /dev/null

I've never seen it, but I don't assume that xmodmap will automatically
be called.

Note, the code I wrote has a problem. You need to find a way to test
that xmodmap hasn't already been invoked for the X server. To do this,
you might test if your key mappings are already in xmodmap before

if [ "$XMODMAP" != "Done" ]; then
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
if (which xmodmap); then
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
export XMODMAP=DONE
fi
fi > /dev/null
fi

I just have:

usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
/usr/bin/xmodmap $usermodmap
else
# fix the mouse at the least.
#
/usr/bin/xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
fi

in my ~/.xinitrc (I'm a southpaw, btw).


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