On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, XeCycle <xecycle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > [...] > >> It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X >> session, which it's not supposed to. > > I'm afraid not. For me, I'm running it like this: > > .xinitrc: > #!/bin/sh > metacity & wmpid=$! > sleep 2 > xmodmap ~/.xmodmaps & > # other commands > wait $wmpid > > It works for me. > Thanks. It may be an openbox thing, but then you started your wm before other stuff. Any special reason for that? Why not exec into metacity in the end, rather than keeping .xinitrc waiting? And why backgrounding xmodmap? I suppose I should try all possibilities, but it remains the mystery: why running from the console doesn't work? Jorge Almeida
