I recently upgraded from RH9 to FC2 and the keyboard mapping seems to
have changed. Specifically the Alt_L key no longer functions as the
Meta key in my favorite editor (Code Crusader). If I execute xmodmap -e
"keysym Alt_L = Meta_L", the problem is fixed. I'd like to have this
mod done at login. After reading the GDM configuration documentation, I
followed /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/GNOME to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessions which
indicated it would execute 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' if nothing caused
XKB_IN_USE to be set. But adding ~/.Xmodmap gave a warning on login:
'You have a keyboard remapping file ... whose contents will now be
ignored.' The menu preferences->keyboard does not offer the mod I
need. I see that xmodmap use is deprecated in favor of the XKB
extension but I haven't been able to find documentation about out how to
use setxkbmap to make this change. I know I could just put an xmodmap
command in .bashrc or something but I'd like to know if there is a
recommended way to get this done on login.
Thanks for any help,
Barry
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