[Cialug] Xmodmap at beginning of X session
Nathan Stien
nathanism at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 21:37:38 CDT 2007
On 9/14/07, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
> I haven't needed xmodmap for quite a while, but when I did, I put it in the
> .profile (it was running ksh), with an if check around it. The if check
> would check to see if a variable was set, and if not, run xmodmap and set
> the variable. You could also check to make sure DISPLAY is set so if you
> ssh in, it won't try to run xmodmap.
Yeah, this is exactly what I came up with, except bash-flavored. But
it feels like a hack, hence my question. I still can't help feeling
there's some more proper place to put this. Thanks for the response,
though, as now I feel less bad about my approach. ;-)
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Nathan P. Stien
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