On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:33:15PM -0700, Brian C wrote: > > I followed these instructions. However, I am using gdm and Gnome and now > when Gnome loads I get a message saying, "You have a keyboard remapping > file (.Xmodmap) in your home directory whose contents will now be ignored."
In some pre-2.20.2 Gnome versions it helped here to open up the "sessions" GUI (2.20.2: Desktop ---> Preferences ---> Sessions): In the latter opening up the "Startup programs" tab, and adding here a line like "xmodmap .xmodmap" helped to let Gnome accept the instructions from this file for my keyboard ... at this pre-2.20.2 version I still had xfre86 'tho ... Today with version Gnome 2.20.2 and Xorg running after logging in to X Gnome asked me, IIRC, what to with some $HOME/.xmodmap* files it found ... so, with this version at least, Gnome seems to accept and read user defined $HOME/.xmodmap* files again ... I have been using GDM for all my Gnome sessions the last years, IIRC .. I wrote a bit on keyboard settings some time ago: http://wolfgangpfeiffer.com/foolinglinux.html#keyboard HTH, and good luck .. Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
