key mapping

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:10 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 03:13:33PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>
>>ok i sort of figured it out, if I type the following in xtem, the mapping works
>>
>>xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Alt_R"
>>
>>where do i put this so it will work after login?  i tried using
>>~/.xmodmap and ~/.xmodmaprc with the following entry
>>
>>!keycode  108 = Alt_R
>>
>>however after a reboot, it does nothing.
>
> I found that as well, but rather than figuring it out, I just put the
> xmodmap calls in my .xinitrc - it seems to work.
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>

I got it working like it should, I had to remove the '!' bang in front
of keycode. Here is a nice howto

http://cweiske.de/howto/xmodmap/allinone.html


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