On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:13:17PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:48 -0400, I wrote: > > > I am repeatedly losing modifier-key function. > > > > I run an up-to-date Lenny system and use the window manager fvwm (2.5.26-1) > > so that I can mostly work from the command line. I also have a virtual XP > > machine (VM, VMware 1.06). > > > > If I use the VM for a few minutes (usually Photoshop, sometimes Acrobat), I > > find that SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT no longer modify what I enter in the Linux > > window. For example, CTRL-c, ALT-c, and SHIFT-c all just send `c'. > > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:37:01 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West > <and...@farwestbilliards.com> replied: > > > 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. > > That gave an error, but this succeeded: > xmodmap -e "add shift = Shift_L" > > and in fact restored shift function nicely. An analogous line for the control > function works too, but this:
sorry, I missed the 'add' there. [...] On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:23:22AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > xmodmap -e 'add shift = Shift_L Shift_R' > xmodmap -e 'add control = Control_L Control_R' > xmodmap -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L' > > I would run "xmodmap -pm" before vmware screws up the modifier keys and > then write a short shell script that restores the modifier map to > exactly that state. Put the script in your $PATH and call it whenever > you need to fix the modifiers. If you find that vmware puts some other > nonsense into the modifier map then you can use xmodmap "clear ..." > commands in your script to start from a clean slate before you add the > correct keysyms for a given modifier. > again, you can specify all those commands in a flat text file such as: cat >.xmodmaprc <<EOF add shift = Shift_L Shift_R add control = Control_L Control_R add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L EOF and then simply run xmodmap. it will automagically run the contents of that file. A ps. I wonder what this recently discovered multi-reply in mutt does to the threading...
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