* Is this reproducible?
Yes.
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
Log out if you are logged in.
Log in using KDM.
See that the key mappings defined in .Xmodmap are not applied.
Run 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap'.
See that the key mappings defined in .Xmodmap are now working.
- My keyboard has en_GB layout.
- xorg.conf has no settings related to keyboard (actually it is not modified
in any other way either).
- This is a new install of Kubuntu 9.04.
- 'xmodmap -verbose ~/.Xmodmap' prints the following:
! /home/akos/.Xmodmap:
! 1: keycode 19
No, this happens only with KDE. When I wrote the description I
remembered that it happend on my other machine too - which runs GNOME -
but this is not the case. This is the reason why I added my first
comment. Now I changed the description too.
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint:
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
~/.Xmodmap does not get loaded on Ubuntu 9.04 and Kubuntu 9.04. The same
.Xmodmap files used to work on Ubuntu 8.10. I guess this is not the same
as Bug #366045 because it appeared in 9.04.
When manually executing 'xmodmap