Richard Cobbe wrote: [] > See the thread at > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.gnome/2070 for a > discussion and my imperfect but usable workaround. If anyone needs > additional help creating the good .xmodmaprc file or with the rest of > the workaround, please feel free to contact me.
You can create an xmodmap file corresponding to your current good keymap from the output of xmodmap -pke This, of course, needs to be run before gnome gets a chance to destroy the keymap, for example without X11 running and without any mention of gnome in ~/.xinitrc. Then, if you name this file ~/.Xmodmap, it will be seen by the gnome-settings-daemon. The first time it sees it, it opens a little window and asks you if it should load it and subsequently it loads it automatically. At least that is what I just saw after removing the ~/.gnome2* and ~/.gconf* directories and starting /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon from the command line. I suggest therefore the following procedure: 1. Quit X11 and move ~/.xinitrc out of the way. Then run xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap (This will start X11 again.) 2. Clean your config files: rm -rf ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome2* 3. Run the gnome-settings-daemon: /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon This will open a window where you can choose .Xmodmap, click on "+Load" and then "OK". From then on, your gnome keymap should be OK. An uglier, but much simpler hack is described at the end of this message. From control-center I still get error messages about not being able to start the gnome-settings-daemon, but at least the keymap is now OK. Here is how I explain the situation: The gnome-applets package installs a whole bunch of xmodmap files into /sw/share/xmodmap/, and almost all of these are crap. There is even one, xmodmap.us-mac, that admits unashamedly what it does. Here is an excerpt: ! This file makes the following changes: [] ! The "Q" key generates udiaeresis, Udiaeresis, diaeresis, and dead_diaeresis ! The "W" key generates oacute, Oacute, cedilla, and dead_cedilla ! The "E" key generates BackSpace ! The "R" key generates Tab and ISO_Left_Tab ! The "T" key generates w, W, bar, and Lstroke ! The "Y" key generates q, Q, backslash, and Greek_OMEGA and so on. This is just the braindamage one gets by default from gnome, because by default it runs xmodmap /sw/share/xmodmap/xmopdmap.us, which has the same keycode table. If there is a joke behind this deliberate garbling of the keyboard, I don't get it. There is actually one keymap (out of 86) in that directory that works OK, xmodmap.de-apple, but this is the only one. The ugly hack is to prevent the loading of the garbled keymaps by simply moving the whole directory /sw/share/xmodmap out of the way. There may then be an error message about not finding some file, but at least the keymap is not destroyed. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
