In order to set the keyboard configuration, I would like to add the
following line ''xmodmap /home/user/.xmodmaprc'' to the X start script.
I added the preceding command line to the general ''/etc/X11/Xsession'', and
the keyboard has no the right keymap and keysymb, but if I add it to the
local ~/user/.xsession, it has no effect !

Pirouz
Debian Sarge, on DELL Inspiron  with kde 3.3, as windwow manager

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pirouz <piromorshed@yahoo.fr> writes:

> In order to set the keyboard configuration, I would like to add the
> following line ''xmodmap /home/user/.xmodmaprc'' to the X start script.
> I added the preceding command line to the general ''/etc/X11/Xsession'', a
nd
> the keyboard has no the right keymap and keysymb, but if I add it to the
> local ~/user/.xsession, it has no effect !

Put a shell script in ~/.kde/Autostart and remember to give it execute
permissions (chmod u+x filename).

The script would then be something like this

#!/bin/sh
xmodmap /home/user/.xmodmaprc
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Jes Vestervang

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Successfull !
Thanks ! But, may I conclude that ~/.xsession is no more the user X startup
script ?

Jes Vestervang wrote:

> pirouz <piromorshed@yahoo.fr> writes:
> 
>
> Put a shell script in ~/.kde/Autostart and remember to give it execute
> permissions (chmod u+x filename).
>
> The script would then be something like this
>
> #!/bin/sh
> xmodmap /home/user/.xmodmaprc

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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:11:58 +0100, pirouz wrote:

> I added the preceding command line to the general ''/etc/X11/Xsession'', a
nd
> the keyboard has no the right keymap and keysymb, but if I add it to the
> local ~/user/.xsession, it has no effect !

According to man xsession the file should be called $HOME/.Xsession -
note the capital letter X.
And this works for my without any problems.

gregor
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:25:22 +0100, pirouz
<piromorshed@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Successfull !
> Thanks ! But, may I conclude that ~/.xsession is no more the user X startu
p
> script ?
>
.xsession works for me.  But Gnome or KDE might have settings that
override .xsession.  Or, if you add to the end of an existing .xsession,
your new commands might be executed at logout.

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On Sun, Feb 12 2006, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:11:58 +0100, pirouz wrote:
> 
>
> According to man xsession the file should be called $HOME/.Xsession -
> note the capital letter X.
> And this works for my without any problems.

Either should work. According to xsession(5):

.. if the line 'allow-user-xsession' is present in Xsession.options, a
user-specified session program or script is used.  In the latter
case, two historically popular names for user X session scripts are
searched for: $HOME/.xsession and $HOME/.Xsession (note the
difference in case).  The first one found is used.

These are Debian specific changes, I think. I prefer to use the startx
script, starting X and my window manager (FVWM2) from the command line.
In this scenario, one would normally initialise startx using commands
found in ~/.xinitrc, however Debian have combined the functionality of
both into ~/.xsession. See startx(1).
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do and always a clever thing to say.
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