[Gllug] Xmodmap Help

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Fri Sep 24 15:20:02 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:18:29PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> I suspect one is also the number of people who could read, understand
> and have the knowledge to answer his question. As you mentioned
> xmodmap is quite obscure these days

It is?  There's another, shinier way to map the compose key on my Happy
Hacking keyboard?  Guess I should move with the times.

> , though my .xinitrc still contains
> a bit of history from the last century:
> 	xmodmap -e "keycode 22  =  BackSpace osfBackSpace"

Huh.  I'm so backard that I extended the xinit scripts to load
~/.Xmodmap

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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