[arch-general] xmodmap

[rara8avis at aol.com]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, XeCycle <xecycle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> 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.
> >
> 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.