On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 11:53 +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Brian Keener wrote: > > > I'm trying to run > > > > xmodmap -e "keysym Home = " > > > > And it's restarting my X-server without applying the changes to the > > keymappings. > > > > Oddly enough, if I start the X server as "-multiwindow" it applies the > > change without rebooting, and resolves (partially) my previous report of > > extraneous "home" keypresses. However, running X as "-rootless" or > > without any command line options at all results in the behaviour > > reported above... > > Get in touch with X. The xserver does restart if the last xclient disconnts. > xmodmap is a xclient and after finishing it's work it disconnects and the > xserver resets (and dumps your changes). In multiwindow mode there is at least > the windowmanager client running and prevents the reset. > > You can omit this behaviour by adding the -noreset option to XWin. This will > prevent the reset > > bye > ago Interesting to know. That command line option doesn't show up either in the FAQ for command line options, or in "X --help", but it most certainly works.
Thanks for the help! -- Brian Keener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
