Re: [tlug] Weird xmodmap problem

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-11-22 06:19 +0000 (Sun), Godwin Stewart wrote:

> For various reasons I have recently decided to switch from Slackware to
> Ubuntu (9.10 Karmic Koala)....
> I have a rather large ~/.xmodmap file that's loaded in when X starts. All
> the expressions in this .xmodmap file are executed bar two of them.

I'd probably have to spend an hour of this or more to start to
understand the details of the problems you're seeing, which I don't
feel up to doing right now, but I want to mention that Ubuntu's
xmodmap-and-related-stuff seems, post-8.04, dodgy to me.

With 8.04 I could use the exact same xmodmap mappings for both
NetBSD (still back on XFree86 in those days) and Ubuntu. With 8.10
things started changing, and the xmodmap files I used for NetBSD
and Ubuntu 8.04 started being incompatible in various ways. In
particular, seemingly standard keys such as the Japaense keyboard
backslash/underscore (just to the left of the right shift key) and
yen/vbar (just to the left of backspace) changed keycodes.

What with your problems, I'm suspecting something is going pretty wrong
here. I find it unlikely that the keyboard's (or several keybaords',
actually) scan codes are changing, so it might be an X11 thing, or hacks
to deal with changes in the keyboard drivers Ubuntu is using, or who
knows what.

So I suppose my summary here is, you are not alone.

cjs
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