[vox-tech] Samba issues on my home network solved!

[Richard S. Crawford]

I was having an issue with files on my Samba share on my home server
being created by user "nobody" when I wanted them created with my
account name on that server. I solved this by deleting the "homes"
share, and creating a new share pointing to my home directory with the
"force user" and "force group" options enabled.

Oddly, when I tried naming the share "richard", the same name as my
account on the computer, I wasn't able to browse to the share from
Windows or write to it from Windows.  But naming the share "rscrawford"
made it all work.  Just plain weird.

Remaining issues:

1.  Trying to sync my Palm Pilot (USB connection) causes my Linux
box to freeze up, and the computer must be rebooted.

2.  I cannot get my display working on my Debian laptop.  GNOME is
dead, apparently beyond resurrection, and I still haven't figured
out whether I ought to just blow the partition and reinstall.

Advice on either of these two issues would be very greatly appreciated.

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Re: [vox-tech] using xmodmap to swap modifier key locations

[Ryan Castellucci]

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On Saturday 11 October 2003 01:12 pm, Henry House wrote:
> Qå lördag, 11 oktober 2003, skrev Shawn P. Neugebauer:
> > Pete alluded to, but did not describe, the "xev" utility.  Use it to
> > figure out *precisely* what X thinks the keys are.  Do this before
> > applying the new map (so, if you've already done so, you'll need to
> > restart X). I doubt you need to do anything to your XF86Config file(s),
> > necessarily, you just need to find the keycodes, keysyms, etc. for your
> > keyboard.
> >
> > FYI, I use this trick in every linux environment I get my hands on, and
> > it's always worked as is.
>
> Thank you everyone for your replies. Things just get stranger and
> stranger---see below. I should probably mention at this point that my real
> goal is not to swap control and caps lock (I want to understand how to do
> that since it is a common and seemingly simple example). My real goal is:
>
> 1. Make the left and right "Alt" keys send control.
> 2. Make the left "Control" key send alt.
> 3. Make the right "Control" key send AltGr.
> 4. Make the "CapsLock" key send compose.
> 5. Have no key send caps lock.
> 6. Maybe do somthing with the "Win logo" and "Menu logo" keys too, but this
> is a low priority since my usual keyboard has neither or these keys.
>
> So, back to swapping control and caps lock. Before I modify anything,
> xmodmap reveals the following:
>
>
> xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
>
> shift   Shift_L (0xa),  Shift_R (0xb)
> lock
> control Control_L (0x8),  Control_R (0x9)
> mod1Meta_L (0xc),  Meta_R (0xd),  Alt_L (0xe),  Alt_R (0xf)
> mod2
> mod3
> mod4
> mod5
>
>
> Note that no keys are assigned to lock! Shouldn't this mean that there is
> no caps lock? But the "Caps lock" key does in fact turn on caps lock.
> According to xev, "Caps Lock" sends Caps_Lock, and "Control" sends
> Control_L.
>
> Now I run the following xmodmap commands:
>
> !
> ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
> !
> remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> remove Control = Control_L
> keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
> keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
> add Lock = Caps_Lock
> add Control = Control_L

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> I will keep experimenting.

try saving the output of `xmodmap -pke` to a file and editing it. Also, see 
my earlier post. The way I got control and caps swapped is diffrent from the 
above, which I think I was unable to get working. See my other post in this 
thread

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Re: [vox-tech] using xmodmap to swap modifier key locations

[Henry House]

Qå lördag, 11 oktober 2003, skrev Shawn P. Neugebauer:
> Pete alluded to, but did not describe, the "xev" utility.  Use it to figure
> out *precisely* what X thinks the keys are.  Do this before applying
> the new map (so, if you've already done so, you'll need to restart X).  
> I doubt you need to do anything to your XF86Config file(s), necessarily,
> you just need to find the keycodes, keysyms, etc. for your keyboard.
> 
> FYI, I use this trick in every linux environment I get my hands on, and
> it's always worked as is.

Thank you everyone for your replies. Things just get stranger and
stranger---see below. I should probably mention at this point that my real
goal is not to swap control and caps lock (I want to understand how to do
that since it is a common and seemingly simple example). My real goal is:

1. Make the left and right "Alt" keys send control.
2. Make the left "Control" key send alt.
3. Make the right "Control" key send AltGr.
4. Make the "CapsLock" key send compose.
5. Have no key send caps lock.
6. Maybe do somthing with the "Win logo" and "Menu logo" keys too, but this
is a low priority since my usual keyboard has neither or these keys.

So, back to swapping control and caps lock. Before I modify anything, xmodmap reveals 
the following:


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

shift   Shift_L (0xa),  Shift_R (0xb)
lock  
control Control_L (0x8),  Control_R (0x9)
mod1Meta_L (0xc),  Meta_R (0xd),  Alt_L (0xe),  Alt_R (0xf)
mod2  
mod3  
mod4  
mod5  


Note that no keys are assigned to lock! Shouldn't this mean that there is no
caps lock? But the "Caps lock" key does in fact turn on caps lock. According
to xev, "Caps Lock" sends Caps_Lock, and "Control" sends Control_L.

Now I run the following xmodmap commands:

!
! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
!
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L


with the result that "Caps Lock" is still caps lock and does not send
control. (It still sends Caps_Lock according to xev.) What is really strange
is that "Control" now works like a shift key! Meaning, that if I hold down
"Control" and press letter keys, I get capital letters. But number keys are
unaffected. So it is really like a caps lock that does not lock (arguable
more useful than regular caps lock, but still bizarre.) According to xev,
"Control" sends Caps_Lock also.

Xmodmap reports:


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

shift   Shift_L (0xa),  Shift_R (0xb)
lockCaps_Lock (0x8)
control Control_L (0x59),  Control_R (0x9)
mod1Meta_L (0xc),  Meta_R (0xd),  Alt_L (0xe),  Alt_R (0xf)
mod2  
mod3  
mod4  
mod5  


I will keep experimenting.

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