unarchive 621835 reopen 621835 ! found 621835 7.6+3 severity 621835 important thanks
[Resending because the bug was archived thus the BTS rejected this email, I was sure it would have worked because I seem to remember it did work in the past. Sorry if you got it twice.] Hi there! Reopening this bug, setting myself as submitter, adding the current version of x11-xserver-utils in unstable and setting Severity: important, for obvious reasons. On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:40:40 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > [email protected] <[email protected]> (10/04/2011): >> Nobody can figure out how to do it because there are no examples on >> the setxkbmap man page. > > I wrote it's an option. So you use: > setxkbmap -option $whatiwrote > > and that works. That does not mean that it is easy to find it out, and I was in the same situation as jidanni, here why. I wanted to map Caps_Lock as Control_L, so I fired up `man xmodmap` and found an example (then discovering a bug, see #641588), but I was too much optimistic. Having found this bug I thought that something like $ setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl would have been correct. Finally, /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst told me that what I wanted was the following command, which is counterintuitive to say the least: $ setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps >> CB> And stop using xmodmap, that's obsolete. >> >> Well why don't you put a warning on its man page. Else how is >> anybody supposed to know? > > Well, nobody bothered to send a patch. Feel free to. Nothing wrong with you, but I hope you are kidding, especially for the obsolete part. 1) it seems that xmodmap is still developed: <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xmodmap/> 2) why is CapsLock the only key that stopped working with xmodmap, while for the other everything is OK? Until today I was using myself with success the following ~/.xmodmaprc: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- !! unset Caps_Lock and Win_key remove lock = Caps_Lock remove mod4 = Super_L ! Caps Lock as Win key keycode 66 = Super_L add mod4 = Super_L --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I completely understand John's feelings, xmodmap is a default/old Unix tool, why breaking it? What are the advantages of the latter? <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=621835#41> Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
