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I have not investigated the reason but I have also noticed the effect. I use the tpu-edt mappings in emacs. (It meant I had one less
thing to learn when moving from VMS to Linux). I have to issue xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap by hand every time I log in on SL 4.4 ( i use kde).
Alex
FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote:
> ----- Original message from Ken Teh on Wed Mar 28 20:48:36 2007 -----
>> Many years ago, I put together a configuration which allowed many of my
>> users to use the Jed editor in EDT emulation mode. The configuration
>> consisted of a VT100 translation table for the xterm application that
>> made use the of PC keypad as an almost 1-1 map of the VT100 keypad.
>> (The PC keypad has a single large + key while the VT100 keypad has 2
>> keys at this coordinate).
>>
>> The trick to this configuration was remapping the NumLock key with
>> xmodmap. I used xmodmap to translate NumLock to an unused X keycode, in
>> particular, KP_Equal. The xterm VT100 translation table then mapped
>> KP_Equal to the Gold Key.
>>
>> I'm unable to do this with SL4x. Xmodmap's at X session startup are
>> ignored. Apparently, one needs to use the newer XKeyboard mechanism to
>> remap keys. I can remap it interactively after I'm logged in. I took a
>> stab at understanding XKeyboard, but it is poorly documented, at least,
>> from a simple users' perspective.
>>
>> I am hoping someone on this list has some suggestions. I suggested
>> folks quit using Jed, but that didn't get me anywhere. ;)
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> I use IceWM and I can use xmodmap in my ~/.icewm/startup file
>
> ...
> if [ -f .xmodmap-`hostname -s` ]
> then
> xmodmap .xmodmap-`hostname -s`
> if [ -f .xset-`hostname -s` ]
> ...
>
> ~/.xmodmap-rabeson # for my Dell laptop
>
> remove Control = Control_R
> remove Mod2 = Num_Lock
>
> keycode 0x4D = Num_Lock Num_Lock
> keycode 0x6C = Shift_R
> keycode 0x75 = Multi_key
> keycode 0x6D = Meta_R
> ! la petite touche i sur laptop Dell
> keycode 0x81 = F25
>
> add Shift = Shift_R
> add Mod2 = Meta_R
> remove Mod2 = Alt_R
> add Mod3 = F25
> add Mod5 = Alt_R
>
>
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Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University.
+44 (0) 1524 593618 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/physics/staff/ajf.htm
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