Recent input changes

Ben Gamari bgamari at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 11:48:55 PST 2009


Strangely enough, before I login (in gdm) things seem to behave as
they should. Directly after I login though (even before my own minimal
~/.Xmodmap has been loaded), the behavior I described earlier begins.

- Ben


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Ben Gamari <bgamari at gmail.com> wrote:
> As it turns out, the problem seems to be my modmap. I'm not sure how
> this happened as before the upgrade things were fine, but the xserver
> seems to have gone a little crazy in assigning modifiers:
>
> xmodmap:  up to 9 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
>
> shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e),  Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x6c),  Supe
> r_L (0x85),  Super_R (0x86),  Meta_L (0xcd),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
> lock        Control_L (0x25),  Alt_L (0x40),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Control_
> R (0x69),  Alt_R (0x6c),  Mode_switch (0xcb),  Meta_L (0xcd)
> control     Num_Lock (0x4d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Super_L (0x85),  Super_R
>  (0x86),  Mode_switch (0xcb),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
> mod1
> mod2
> mod3
> mod4
> mod5
>
> Furthermore, xmodmap is unwilling to let me change the modifier setup,
>
> [1111 ben at mercury ~] $ xmodmap -e 'remove Shift = Alt_L'
> xmodmap: bad set modifier mapping.
> [1112 ben at mercury ~] $ xmodmap -e 'clear Shift'
> xmodmap: bad set modifier mapping.
> [1112 ben at mercury ~] $ xmodmap -e 'add Control = Control_L'
> xmodmap: bad set modifier mapping.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks,
>
> - Ben
>



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