At Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:28:53 +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Richard Lewis wrote:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
both in ~/.xinitrc and in Fluxbox's start up file. [...] after reading a few suggestions that there might be some sort of default that may be getting applied after mine.
Any ideas what's going on here?
No. Is there anything shown wherever the X errors are being displayed?
Are you sure the personal xinitrc is being executed at all?
Can you examine the system X startup scripts to see what commands are being run afterwards to see if it may indeed be changing your defaults?
Thanks for these suggestions, but see below.
Personally, I switched to solutions based on xkb layouts a while ago because of this sort of problems. I seem to be using a standard gb layout now - possibly I sent some changes upstream long long ago. What keys are you still needing to remap?
Ah, OK. I should have looked into alternatives. So all I use it for is to make my Caps Lock key a third Ctrl key. And so I've now found the revelant xkb:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
and put it in my .xinit. So I'm not going to bother with debugging xmodmap.
Thanks, Richard