[gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Alex V. Fansky]

Hello,
I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org start and even 
restart. Where is the best place to put it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Anders Trobäck]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:23:04 +0300
"Alex V. Fansky" <garen@tut.by> wrote:

> Hello,
> I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org start
> and even restart. Where is the best place to put it?
> 

How do you start X, XDM, GDM, KDM or maybe startx?

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
> Hello,
> I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org
> start and even restart. Where is the best place to put it?
>
~/.bashrc

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Dan Keder]

Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org
> > start and even restart. Where is the best place to put it?
> >
> ~/.bashrc

AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g. when logging in
via ssh).
 

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:19:29 +0200, Dan Keder wrote:

> > > I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org
> > > start and even restart. Where is the best place to put it?
> > >  
> > ~/.bashrc  
> 
> AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g. when logging in
> via ssh).

More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.


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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.

Try ~/.xinitrc

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:09:24 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:

> > More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.  
> 
> Try ~/.xinitrc

That may work, it depends on how the OP is starting X, which he hasn't
said, despite being asked. It could be .xinitrc, .Xsession
or .kde/Autostart/


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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g. when
> > logging in via ssh).
>
> More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.

Works for me.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:58:28 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:

> > More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.  
> 
> Works for me.

Which proves nothing more than you are starting bash with X. .bashrc is
for Bash, .xinitrc is for X. .bashrc running when X starts for you is a
by-product of your setup, not the way it is intended to be used.


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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Tim Allingham]

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On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:58 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g. when
> > > logging in via ssh).
> >
> > More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.
> 
> Works for me.
> 
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but if you restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace does it continue working?

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Tim Allingham wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:58 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > > AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g.
> > > > when logging in via ssh).
> > >
> > > More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up.
> >
> > Works for me.
> >
>
> but if you restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace does it continue
> working?

Yes.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Dan Keder wrote:
> Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my
> > > X.org start and even restart. Where is the best place to put
> > > it?
> >
> > ~/.bashrc
>
> AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g. when
> logging in via ssh).
>
Yes, but but when you log in to a non-X terminal you can still log 
in - all you get is a message like "xmodmap:  unable to open 
display ''".

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Peter Ruskin wrote:
> Yes, but but when you log in to a non-X terminal you can still log 
> in - all you get is a message like "xmodmap:  unable to open 
> display ''".

Then execute those commands with a conditional test of the $DISPLAY env var...

test -n "$DISPLAY" && some_command_to_run_if_$DISPLAY_has_content

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Tim Allingham]

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On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:23 +0300, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
> Hello,
> I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org start and even 
> restart. Where is the best place to put it?
> 
> -- 
> Alex V. Fansky
> Minsk, BSU

can't you use .xinitrc for this?

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Alex V. Fansky]

В сообщении от Tuesday 31 July 2007 16:05:54 Tim Allingham написал(а):
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:23 +0300, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org start and
> > even restart. Where is the best place to put it?
> >
> > --
> > Alex V. Fansky
> > Minsk, BSU
>
> can't you use .xinitrc for this?

Thanks for your reply. Adding my command to .xinitrc helped

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Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

[Albert Hopkins]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:23 +0300, Alex V. Fansky wrote:
> Hello,
> I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org start
> and even 
> restart. Where is the best place to put it? 

Kinda depends on how you start your X session.  I'll talk about the ones
I know about:

      * If you use "startx" or "xinit" to start your X session, then you
        probably already have an ~/.xinitrc. You can put it there.
      * If you use a xdm or similar then you can put it in ~/.xsession.
        By default, though GDM, for example, does not read your
        ~/.xsession, however...
      * GNOME automatically reads your ~/.Xmodmap on startup unless told
        otherwise.  You could also put it in "Control
        Center/Sessions/Startup Programs"
      * I would *not* put it in ~/.bashrc for remote X stuff. the reason
        is that your local machine may, e.g. have a different keyboard
        layout than the remote machine and when you ssh into the remote
        machine it will use the local .Xmodmap.  This is also a problem
        with GNOME's automatic reading of .Xmodmap too, unfortunately.
        If you are using xdm but not GNOME you can probably get around
        it by checking to see if the DISPLAY variable points to a remote
        (or ssh-forwarded) display.

I don't know KDE or other DE's/DM's so cannot say. 

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