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[Jan Elders <jrme@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 January 2004 00:32, Yongtao Yang wrote:
> Jan Elders <jrme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Hello world,
> > Could it be that the .xinitrc file in my home directory is ignored ?
> >
> > Reason I ask is that I have added in the .xintrc file in my home
> > directory the following (near the end of the file) :
> > #
> > # Add your own lines here...
> > #
> > xmodmap -e 'keycode 96 = EuroSign'
> >
> > However, after my user-session is started, key 96 still renders the F12
> > function and not the eurosign.
> > When I go to shell and give the same command then it works OK.
> >
> > So, my preliminary conclusion is that the .xinitrc file in my  home
> > directory is ignored at startup of the session.
> > Is that possible ?
> > If so, how could I remedy that ?
> >
> > TIA and HAND,
> > --
>
> Hi, Jan
>
> Just a wild guess here. Is your .xinitrc executable? What did
> "ls -l ~/.xinitrc" say? It should be at least executable by the owner.
>
> Try "chmod u+x ~/.xinitrc" and relogin.
>
Blush !!!!!
Yes of course, I should have checked. 
It was NOT executable, so I corrected this. Thanks for your "wild guess" !
But .... amazingly the xmodmap command as mentioned above still insn't 
executed (or anyway does not result in setting the eurosign to the F12 key) 
after re-login.
I know by now that .xinitrc is executed because I added a statement : 
logger ".xinit executed by me" , which I can see in /var/log/messages.

So : any suggestions why the xmodmap statement has no result ???
(The same statement works allright when I execute it by hand in shell)

TIA and cheers,
-- 
Jan Elders
the Netherlands
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