xmodmap settings lost when changing keyboard layout

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:11:31 +0200 Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

> Hey Olivier,
> 
> I have some multimedia keys defined in ~/.Xmodmap. Right now I'm
> working on properly handling MappingNotify events in the keyboard
> shortcuts code. It works nicely and except for one issue: Whenever I
> change the keyboard layout, the multimedia key definitions such as
> 
>   keycode 162 = XF86AudioPause
> 
> are lost. They work again after running 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap'. Is it
> possible that there are some bits missing in the code for changing the
> layout? 

There's another thread about this ("don't touch keyboard setup").  I'd
think at least a work around would be to re-merge ~/.Xmodmap (if it
exists) after changing keyboard layouts.  Assuming xmodmap settings are
generally "cross-keymap".

	-b