On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, USM Bish wrote: > 2. The BackSpace key needs fixing for "X". However placing xmodmap > parameters in .xsessions or .Xdefaults does not seem to correct the > problem, and I need to repeat the same over an xterm. Is there any > way out?
My xmodmap is run from ~/.xsession (note: not .xsessions) and works fine. There is a file /etc/X11/Xmodmap that Debian supplies. I suppose that's the official place to put it. /etc/X11/Xmodmap takes actual xmodmap parameters (keycode=xxx, etc). In ~/.xsession, I actually execute the xmodmap program with my own file of parameters: xmodmap /home/rickm/.Xmodmap ...RickM...