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Angle

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 21

XMonad Overriding xmodmap?

I am trying to swap my Left Alt with the Left Windows key. It works fine using this .Xmodmap

remove Mod1 = Alt_L
remove Mod4 = Super_L
keysym Super_L = Alt_L
keysym Alt_L = Super_L
add Mod1 = Super_L
add Mod4 = Alt_L

clear Lock
add Control = Caps_Lock

then I added "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to my .xinitrc. Using just xmodmap and xev I can confirm that the keys have indeed been swapped. The problem occurs when I launch Xmonad.

Here is my xmodmap before Xmonad

xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock      
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d),  Caps_Lock (0x42)
mod1        Super_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71),  Meta_L (0x9c),  Super_L (0x7d)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Alt_L (0x73),  Super_R (0x74),  Alt_L (0x7f),  Hyper_L (0x80)
mod5        Mode_switch (0x5d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)

and then directly after

xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71),  Meta_L (0x9c)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0x73),  Super_R (0x74),  Super_L (0x7f),  Hyper_L (0x80)
mod5        Mode_switch (0x5d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)

No matter what commands I use, xmodmap always stays the same after XMonad has been launched. I'm not sure if there is something I'm missing but I can't seem to swap the keys. If anyone has experience with this, it would be much obliged.

scj

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 158

Re: XMonad Overriding xmodmap?

I've had some similar problem, trying to switch the capslock button to escape with xmodmap in xmonad. The solution was to put

(sleep 1; xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap) &

in .xinitrc.

Angle

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 21

Re: XMonad Overriding xmodmap?

Thanks for the suggestion but that did not work..

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: XMonad Overriding xmodmap?

Are you saying that it works if you run in when XMonad has already started ?
Then you can just increase the sleep time

(sleep 5 && xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap) &

Last edited by moljac024 (2009-07-23 07:21:16)

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Angle

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 21

Re: XMonad Overriding xmodmap?

Are you saying that it works if you run in when XMonad has already started ?

No, sorry that I didn't make that clearer but it does not work even if I run it while XMonad has been started.
But strangely, if I do this

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap; xmodmap; sleep 3; xmodmap

The first plain "xmodmap" shows that the keys have all been switched according to my .Xmodmap config file. The second xmodmap, after waiting three seconds, shows that all of the keys have been changed back as if I hadn't even ran xmodmap.

Last edited by Angle (2009-07-23 14:02:01)