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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

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xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

Well, finally I succeeded in making kde recognize all my mouse buttons (MX700) correctly.

I am running KDE3.5, starting it automatically at runlevel5  (through inittab) and using xmodmap to correct the buttons mapping.

The problem is that the only way I´ve found (and I did try a lot of solutions) to run xmodmap automaticaly was to add an executable file in ~/.kde/Autostart/

And the problems :
1.  I have to manually create the file for each new user.
2.  Where fo I put it for user root ?
3.  What happens if I want to use another DM ?

So - is there someplace I can move that executable (if you have a better idea - I game), so that I´ll have my mouse buttons for any user and for any DM - while using only ONE such file ?

Thanks
Ben

Dusty

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

I *believe* that anything that is put in xmodmap can be put directly into xorg.conf, BUT the formatting will be totally different. And I may be wrong.

The root user, you can put it in the /root directory, that is their home directory.

I think there is a file that is executed whenever you log in. This depends if you are using kdm, gdm, xdm -- for example, it might be .Xsession for xdm. Or I may be wrong. I'm really working from faulty memory here. Time to run memtest.... :-D

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Mr Green

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Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

a small script maybe to call... or add to rc.local (never tried that!)

xmodmap ~<path to .Xmodmap>

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Dusty

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

won't work in rc.local because it needs to be run after x starts up....

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

i think if you put the kbmap as ".Xmodmap" in ~ of every user its the user's default... but again you have to do it for every user separately...

Egil.B

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From: Universitas Osloensis

Registered: 2004-02-14

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

and put it in /etc/skel for future users

postlogic

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Registered: 2005-02-24

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

Why not just put it in /etc/xmodmap, and symlink from each user's home?

jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

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Re: xmodmap - for ALL users, for ALL desktops - how ?

if every user has to use the same kbdmap, of course