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 works for me. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, XeCycle wrote:

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Jorge Almeida writes:

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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 works for me.

Thanks. It may be an openbox thing, but then you started your wm before other stuff. Any special reason for that? Why not exec into metacity in the end, rather than keeping .xinitrc waiting? And why backgrounding xmodmap? I suppose I should try all possibilities, but it remains the mystery: why running from the console doesn't work?

Jorge Almeida

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 terminal window and then run icewmbg. For me this is not a big deal because I run icewm in order to run lean and clean and if I really want to see that background photo, I can run xfwm4. T.