On 27 Sep 2007, s. keeling wrote: > Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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). > >
Unfortunately, neither of these works for me. The problem appears to be that $DISPLAY is not set. I have tried setting various values for it (:0.0, :0) but they don't work. Does anyone know what it ought to be? -- 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]
