On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:58:31PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:48 -0400, I wrote: > > > I am repeatedly losing modifier-key function. [...] > > look into xmodmap. get the output of xmodmap both before and after the > > problem. set up an .xmodmaprc file and then run it whenever you have a > > problem with the VM borking them. > > I tried this without success. First I ran xmodmap in sane mode and then in > sick mode. As expected, all the modifier key entries had become blank, e.g. > > shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) > > was now > > shift > > Next I made a shell file with lines of this sort (all from xmodmap -pke): > > xmodmap -e "keycode 50 = Shift_L"
I think you should be running xmodmap -e "shift = Shift_L" instead. Try that and see then if it assigns Shift_L to the shift modifier. > > I ran this after re-entering sick mode. Some lines (e.g. the one above) ran > without error, but others generated errors such as: > > xmodmap: unable to open file 'keycode 109 = Control_R' for reading That sounds like a badly formatted command line to me. To do multiple commands with xmodmap, it is easiest to put them in a file (I use .xmodmaprc, the default config file). > > In either case, the modifier keys still did nothing. I guess I will just > have to get used to running startx again. I vaguely recall that in my > Win4Lin days the VM screwed up some of the shortcuts I defined for > fvwm. I think it's surely a bug somewhere, as this shouldn't be happening. Have you searched the BTS for possible clues? A
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
