xmodmap not working from xinitrc

[Chris Hill]

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?

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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