On Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 at 11:47 -0000, quoth Craig White: =>On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:20 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> On Wednesday, Jan 21st 2009 at 08:21 -0000, quoth Craig White: =>> =>> =>Again on Acer Aspire One =>> => =>> =>Looking at this page from Arch Linux page on Acer Aspire One... =>> => =>> =>http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#Additional_function_keys =>> => =>> =>which suggests that I create mappings for some of the function keys so =>> =>they do things like control volume, etc. and then to add a link to =>> =>execute the mappings in .xinitrc =>> => =>> =>Well, F10 doesn't have .xinitrc but it does have /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc =>> =>and xinitrc-common but I suspect that a manual edit of either of those =>> =>is not really something to do with any permanence. =>> => =>> =>What's the suggested method for adding xmodmap entries? Put into a file =>> =>in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ? =>> => =>> =>Craig =>> => =>> =>PS: I edited the Acer Aspire One page on FedoraProject wiki to reflect =>> =>the few easy steps to make the built-in camera work (for those with an =>> =>Acer Aspire One). =>> => =>> =>> Look in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common =>> =>> All you need to do is to create a ~/.Xmodmap file and it should get pulled =>> in. =>---- =>makes sense but doesn't seem to like me ;-( => =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ ls -al ~/.Xmodmap =>-rw-rw-r-- 1 craig craig 220 2009-01-21 06:00 /home/craig/.Xmodmap => =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ cat .Xmodmap =>keycode 160 = XF86AudioMute =>keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVolume =>keycode 176 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume =>keycode 223 = XF86Standby =>keycode 239 = XF86KbdBrightnessDown =>keycode 123 = XF86KbdBrightnessUp =>keycode 210 = XF86Display => =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ dumpkeys|grep 123 =>keycode 123 = => =>[craig@aspire-one ~]$ dumpkeys|grep 174 =>keycode 174 = => =>This is after creating ~/.Xmodmap and logging out and logging back in. =>Went a step further and rebooted - same. => =>;-( => I just looked. It looks like the ~/.Xmodmap doesn't get pulled in unless there is a ~/.Xkbmap I don't know what that is or why it's there, BUT! it looks like if you just create an empty file called ~/.Xkbmap then it should all work. The relevant phrase in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common is this: userresources=$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap userxkbmap=$HOME/.Xkbmap sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap sysxkbmap=/etc/X11/Xkbmap # merge in defaults [ -r "$sysresources" ] && xrdb -merge "$sysresources" [ -r "$userresources" ] && xrdb -merge "$userresources" # merge in keymaps if [ -r "$sysxkbmap" ]; then setxkbmap $(cat "$sysxkbmap") XKB_IN_USE=yes fi if [ -r "$userxkbmap" ]; then setxkbmap $(cat "$userxkbmap") XKB_IN_USE=yes fi # xkb and xmodmap don't play nice together if [ -z "$XKB_IN_USE" ]; then [ -r "$sysmodmap" ] && xmodmap "$sysmodmap" [ -r "$usermodmap" ] && xmodmap "$usermodmap" fi unset XKB_IN_USE -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
