$HOME/.Xmodmap is applied twice in Xubuntu 12.04 LTS, I'm afraid. The error messages I find in $HOME/.xsession-errors are the same I get when running xmodmap twice on the command line (without any $HOME/.Xmodmap present at login). By the same test, it is applied once in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, both for 2D end 3D xsessions. My test:
tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ uname -a Linux thinkpad-t43 3.2.0-27-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 6 14:46:35 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ grep xmodmap .xsession-errors [no matches] tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ cat .Xmodmap cat: .Xmodmap: No such file or directory tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ cat .Xmodmap-backup ! ! ! Make the right ctrl key behave as the windows key ! remove control = Control_R add Mod4 = Control_R ! ! ! Make the caps lock key behave as the shift key ! remove lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Shift_L tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ xmodmap .Xmodmap-backup [no errors] tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ xmodmap .Xmodmap-backup xmodmap: .Xmodmap-backup:11: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes xmodmap: .Xmodmap-backup:12: bad keysym target keysym 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes xmodmap: 2 errors encountered, aborting. tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ mv .Xmodmap-backup .Xmodmap tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ [logout and login again] tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ grep xmodmap .xsession-errors xmodmap: /home/tme/.Xmodmap:11: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes xmodmap: /home/tme/.Xmodmap:12: bad keysym target keysym 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes xmodmap: 2 errors encountered, aborting. tme@thinkpad-t43:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/700309 Title: $HOME/.Xmodmap is applied twice Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm It seems that $HOME/.Xmodmap is applied twice in Ubuntu 10.10. This might cause problems for some users - in my case, for example, I use Xmodmap to swap the Escape and CapsLock key - so when applied twice, nothing is essentially swapped. FYI, here's my .Xmodmap: ! Swap caps lock and escape remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Escape = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape add Lock = Caps_Lock I verified this by commenting out the line in /etc/gdm/Xsession which applies my ".Xmodmap". After that, everything works as expected. It seems that some other component applies .Xmodmap, too - I guess it's some part of Gnome, as sometimes when logging in I get asked which .Xmodmap I want to load. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/700309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
