xfce4 startup appears to override my xmodmap keyboard settings

[Chris G]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:51:39PM +0100, Fabian Nowak wrote:
> adjust your keyboard settings under the Xfce settings manager.
> 
So how in Xfce settings manager do I specify what key I want to use as
the Compose key?

I agree absolutely that this makes sense but the Xfce keyboard
settings manager doesn't seem to have any way to set the function of
individual keys.

I think you have pointed *exactly* at the problem.  The xfce keyboard
settings come along *after* my xmodmap has run and set up the keyboard
so they overwrite my settings.  That's fine *if* I can somehow tell
xfce that I want to use the RH 'Windows' key as the Compose key.


> Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 18:48 +0000 schrieb Chris G:
> > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:54:55AM -0700, David Mohr wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 04:21:46PM -0700, David Mohr wrote:
> > > >> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > >> > I have a .Xmodmap file which sets up the Compose key and some mouse
> > > >> > button changes.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Both xfce *and* gdm run 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' for me which is a bit
> > > >> > redundant but no harm really.  However *only* the mouse settings
> > > >> > survive through the rest of X initialisation, the Compose key set-up
> > > >> > for my keyboard is lost.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I have checked pretty carfully and xmodmap is definitely being run (I
> > > >> > have added echo output at the appropriate places and it appears in
> > > >> > .xsession-errors, I used to get an xmodmap warning too).  Anyway my
> > > >> > mouse settings *are* being done so that confirms it's run.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > If I run 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' in a terminal window once X is up and
> > > >> > running I get the keyboard setting I want, so the .Xmodmap file is OK.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > My *guess* is that xfce is doing its own keyboard set-up after xmodmap
> > > >> > is run and overrides the Compose key setting I want.  Is this a bug or
> > > >> > should I be setting up the Compose key somewhere in the xfce4
> > > >> > configuration?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > For the moment I'm running 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' with a 20 second delay
> > > >> > from my .xprofile, this works but feels like a bit of a bodge.
> > > >>
> > > >> Search the list archives, there has been discussion about this before.
> > > >>
> > > > Er, *how* do I search the archives?  There appears to be no search
> > > > function at http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce/.
> > > 
> > > Missing search functionality sucks, that's true. It might be because
> > > pipermail's search is not good to begin with? Anyone have a clue?
> > > 
> > > Anyway, you can always revert to the google, and search for:
> > >   site:http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce/ xmodmap
> > > 
> > The threads that brings up don't sound like the issue that I have,
> > none of them talk about the xfce keyboard set-up effectively
> > overwriting what xmodmap has done.  This is almost certainly what is
> > happening to me IMHO as it makes no difference at all where you run
> > xmodmap from, if it's run before xfce4 completes its startup then the
> > keyboard settings are lost.
> > 
> > E.g. if I run xmodmap from my .xprofile I get the mouse set up but
> > lose the keyboard setup.  If I do *exactly* the same (i.e. run it from
> > .xprofile) but with a delay then both the mouse setup and the keyboard
> > setup work.   It has to be something that xfce (or other things that
> > happen soon after X starts) is doing to the keyboard effectively
> > overwrites what xmodmap has done.
> > 
> > All the above threads refer to bugs that prevent xmodmap from working
> > properly, in my case it does work properly but then its work is undone
> > by something.
> > 
> 
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Chris Green