On 25 Sep 2007, Mumia W.. wrote: > 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. >> I tried putting the full path to xmodmap, which seemed to work at first >> but then failed. Next, I put the command in ~/.bashrc. That does work >> but it has the undesirable effect of making bash try to run xmodmap even >> when X is not running. The result was that pinging and ssh between >> computers on my network kept failing. > > Try this in your .bashrc: > > if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then > if (which xmodmap); then > xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap > fi > fi > /dev/null > >> So at present I'm stuck, unless I can find something in the bash man >> page to cater for the issue (perhaps a conditional clause in .bashrc?). >> Meawhile I think I'll put a bug report in for xinit. > > What version of xinit? What O/S are you using? > >> Has no one else seen this behaviour? (I think someone on the Slacware >> newsgroup has.) >> Anthony > > > 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 invoking it. > > BTW, is it possible to store a semaphore on the X server? I'm thinking that > xrdb could be used like so: > > echo 'sem*xmodmap_done: yes' | xrdb -merge > > But perhaps there are other ways.
Thanks to all for advice and suggestions. Meanwhile, I've had a reply from the maintainer of xserver-xorg, who tells me that this is a known bug and will be fixed in the upcoming release. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
