On Wednesday 30 July 2003 8:03, Thomas Otto wrote: > >>>> Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap > >>>> which i load when I login. > >>> > >>> It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no > >>> better myself. :) > > > > But where *is* this keymap that will be read at the start of an X session > > on Debian 3.0. r1 /testing? > > Um, yes, I forgot to mention. > In theory you just create a ~/.xsession and the scripts in > /etc/X11/Xsession.d which take care of your X login will execute this > upon start, i.e. don't forget "exec /bash/to/windowmanager" in the last > line. > YET this seems also fscked here
See Debian bug 195845 for a patch to fix this problem. It shows up if you're using KDM or GDM and selecting a specific session manager (as opposed to the default). > I gave up trying to understand the Xsession.d chaos b/c even simple > "echo var is $THISVAR now" for debugging made the script exit (maybe due > to "exec > "$ERRFILE" 2>&1" in the caller?). BTW, For debugging these, I always echo into some /tmp/file so I can see what was executed before all heck breaks loose. Frank
