Hi,
I’m having a very acute annoyance here. My KDE3 just won’t load .Xmodmap upon starting.
I’ve used 11.1 x86-64 for a few months now, and find the compose key marvellous (use it as Windows right key) and even better than windows alt codes! I had to, if I recollect correctly, to create .Xmodmap in ~, which was
keycode 116 = Multi_key
and that’s it.
And it worked in both Gnome and KDE3.
Now, using another computer, with freshly installed 11.1 i586 (+ latest updates). The multi key does work in Gnome (gives a prompt upon starting it to load .Xmodmap), but not at all in KDE3… So this rules out any keyboard incompatibility, since it works in one place.
I saw here http://tinyurl.com/lo639o the suggestion to create keyboard.sh, in /home/pbl/.kde/Autostart, (pbl is me) which is
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
It works, but only if I run the script manually by clicking on it… Perhaps it has to be different in openSUSE?
File details are:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pbl users 24 2009-09-10 11:03 .Xmodmap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pbl users 41 2009-09-10 11:38 keyboard.sh
Question:
Could you tell me how to make that keyboard.sh run automatically when starting KDE3?
By the way, can I also extend the use of my .Xmodmap to the terminal consoles (ttys) ? (I guess not since it starts with X… but perhaps some substitute is around?) Well I tried to run the .Xmodmap in tty, but it says ‘unable to open display’. In fact all I would like in tty is to have multi key added.
Thank you.