Can you post/describe your config files you use to achieve this ? Afaik you should create necessary xorg.conf.d entries for your input device to have them persists across device plugging/unplugging, at the very least <div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/29 Raghavendra D Prabhu <<a href="mailto:raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com">raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi,<div><div class="h5"> * On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:47:16AM +0100, marcin kowalski <<a href="mailto:yoshi314@gmail.com" target="_blank">yoshi314@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> do you have your keymap set in the xorg.conf.d ? If not, it would seem natural that they would reset to X server defaults. 2011/12/29 Raghavendra D Prabhu <<a href="mailto:raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com" target="_blank">raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, </blockquote></blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> When X is running and I plug out/plug in my usb keyboard, I see that Xmodmap/xset etc settings get lost and I have it to run xmodmap/xset again for them to apply to the keyboard. Is this a bug or the behavior the way it should be ? </blockquote></blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Regards, -------------------------- Raghavendra Prabhu GPG Id : 0xD72BE977 Fingerprint: B93F EBCB 8E05 7039 CD3C A4B8 A616 DCA1 D72B E977 www: <a href="http://wnohang.net" target="_blank">wnohang.net</a> </blockquote></blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> _______________________________________________ <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.x.org" target="_blank">xorg@lists.x.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: <a href="mailto:yoshi314@gmail.com" target="_blank">yoshi314@gmail.com</a> </blockquote></blockquote> </div></div> I don't have any custom keymap, just a bunch of xmodmap and xset rules. Do I need to add/Is it possible to add these xorg.conf.d ? <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"> _______________________________________________ <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.x.org" target="_blank">xorg@lists.x.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> </div> Your subscription address: <a href="mailto:raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com" target="_blank">raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com</a> </blockquote><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -------------------------- Raghavendra Prabhu GPG Id : 0xD72BE977 Fingerprint: B93F EBCB 8E05 7039 CD3C A4B8 A616 DCA1 D72B E977 www: <a href="http://wnohang.net" target="_blank">wnohang.net</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>