How to load xkeymap at user login or start up?

wenbushi · 2019-09-22 01:03:04

I changed my keyboard mapping recently followed archwiki. But

xkbcomp custom.xkb $DISPLAY

in ~/.xinitrc, ~/.bashrc or ~/.pofile doesn't take effect at user login. So how to load the keymap automatically at user login or start up?

Last edited by wenbushi (2019-09-22 01:23:47)

jasonwryan · 2019-09-22 03:00:47

Paste the .xinitrc with the invocation you are trying to implement.

wenbushi · 2019-09-22 07:41:18

Just one line follows the wiki:

test -f ~/.Xkeymap && xkbcomp ~/.Xkeymap $DISPLAY

where ~/.Xkeymap is a symbolic link to my custom key mapping file.

I can load it manually from bash after login.

Last edited by wenbushi (2019-09-22 07:43:34)

Slithery · 2019-09-22 07:48:29

Post the entire ~/.xinitrc, as Jason asked.

wenbushi · 2019-09-22 09:11:49

Slithery wrote:

Post the entire ~/.xinitrc, as Jason asked.

Sorry if I didn't make it clear.

The entire content of my ~/.xinitrc is that line.

$ cat ~/.xinitrc 
test -f ~/.Xkeymap && xkbcomp ~/.Xkeymap $DISPLAY

Slithery · 2019-09-22 09:20:24

You're obviously not launching your DE/WM using startx as that file is garbage and won't do anything.

How do you log in to your graphical session?

wenbushi · 2019-09-22 16:34:40

Slithery wrote:

You're obviously not launching your DE/WM using startx as that file is garbage and won't do anything.
How do you log in to your graphical session?

No. I'm using sddm to log into KDE and there is no speicial configurations as I remember. But there must be something wrong with the command above,

because I put it in many start up scripts like ~/.xprofile and ~/.xinitrc, and I'm sure the line was executed during login(I've tested it).

But I can load it manually without warnings or errors after that.

Last edited by wenbushi (2019-09-22 17:08:32)

seth · 2019-09-22 16:36:52

Arch Linux