Re: X + keyboard problem

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Sarel J Botha wrote:
> 
> I have a win95-clone keyboard and I like using one of the extra keys to
bring
> up the wmaker menu. When I start X via gdm the extra keys don't work,
starting
> it via startx it works fine. I'm using Debian and my session is set to
Debian,
> which runs /etc/X11/Xsession.
> 
> Anyone have some advice?

>On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 05:32:53PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds like it might be a bug in the gdm package - maybe it skips some
>> step that xdm takes.
>> 
>> Havoc
>> 
>
>Nope, just tried xdm, does the same. I'll ask the Debian folk...

Do you have a .xinitrc file? If so, startx uses this. I suspect that when
you run startx instead of xdm or gdm, a config file used by startx (such
as .xinitrc) runs a command such as 

usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
xmodmap $usermodmap &

Or some other xmodmap-type command to enable those keys. This is a common
way to enable "extra" buttons. If so, your life is easy, just copy those
xmodmap commands (whatever they may be) over to your .Xsession (or 
whatever gdm uses, I use startx :-) )

--If not, I dunno.

Worth a try though?

Tom.
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