[arch-general] xmodmap

2011-10-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have a very annoying problem with xmodmap: Inside X, in an xterm: $ echo $DISPLAY :1 In console (agetty1): $ echo $DISPLAY $ xmodmap .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display '' $ xmodmap -display :2 .Xmodmap xmodmap:

Re: [arch-general] remove grub from base group?

2011-10-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.10.2011 05:35, schrieb Ray Kohler: > Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense > that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in > base. > > I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted. +1 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] xmodmap

2011-10-01 Thread XeCycle
Jorge Almeida writes: [...] > It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X > session, which it's not supposed to. I'm afraid not. For me, I'm running it like this: .xinitrc: #!/bin/sh metacity & wmpid=$! sleep 2 xmodmap ~/.xmodmaps & # other commands wait $wmpid It w

Re: [arch-general] xmodmap

2011-10-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, XeCycle wrote: > Jorge Almeida writes: > > [...] > >> It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X >> session, which it's not supposed to. > > I'm afraid not.  For me, I'm running it like this: > > .xinitrc: > #!/bin/sh > metacity & wmpid=$

Re: [arch-general] xmodmap

2011-10-01 Thread rara8avis
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, XeCycle wrote: > > Jorge Almeida writes: > > > > [...] > > > >> It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X > >> session, which it's not supposed to. > > > > I'm afraid not.

Re: [arch-general] xmodmap

2011-10-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, wrote: > > FWIW, icewmbg, which is supposed to be run before icewm (according to the > documentation); or which is supposed to be run by icewm-session; fails for > similar reasons ($DISPLAY is not set and X is not running) unless I first > run icewm, open a termina

Re: [arch-general] xmodmap

2011-10-01 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, marshall wrote: > > Hopefully this time I'll make the list. > > My enviroment file. > > setxkbmap gb > xmodmap /home/marshall/.Xmodmap > > I used run xmodmap from ~/.config/openbox/autostart > but that ceased to work after the openbox 3.5 upgrade. I then tried to >

Re: [arch-general] remove grub from base group?

2011-10-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 01.10.2011 05:35, schrieb Ray Kohler: >> Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense >> that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in >> base. >> >> I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted.