Re: [Fink-users] powerbook keyboard and gnome

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:45:30PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote:

> I suggest therefore the following procedure:
>
> 1. Quit X11 and move ~/.xinitrc out of the way. Then run
>
>   xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap
>
>   (This will start X11 again.)

Note that this won't include settings for modifiers like Shift, etc.  I
don't know if this is a problem in reality, though, since I pre-emptively
added modifer settings to ~/.Xmodmap.

> 2. Clean your config files:
>
>   rm -rf ~/.gconf* ~/.gnome2*
>
> 3. Run the gnome-settings-daemon:
>
>   /sw/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
>
> This will open a window where you can choose .Xmodmap, click on "+Load"
> and then "OK".
>
> From then on, your gnome keymap should be OK.

Oh, very nice.  This fixes the race condition with my setup.  Thanks!

> Here is how I explain the situation: The gnome-applets package installs
> a whole bunch of xmodmap files into /sw/share/xmodmap/, and almost all
> of these are crap. There is even one, xmodmap.us-mac, that admits
> unashamedly what it does. Here is an excerpt:

<SNIP>

Wow.  That's *really* bad.  Thanks for the explanation, btw -- even if I
use your first solution, it's nice to know what's going on under the hood.

Richard

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