[ILUG] ssh and xmodmap

[Brendan Halpin]

raoul duke <dr_gonzo at redbrick.dcu.ie> writes:

> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > I'm running sawfish on Debian, without Gnome/KDE -- minimal and
> > pleasant, but it means going back to "the old ways" for some
> > settings. Like the left-handed mouse, which I setup with
> >         xmodmap -e "pointer=3 2 1 4 5"
> > in .bash_profile. 
> 
> shouldn't that kind of stuff be in your .Xsessionrc or something?

With kdm (which I am running without KDE), it should run
~/.xsession or ~/.Xsession. However, it doesn't. I've been rooting
around /etc/X11/Xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ and I'm puzzled:
there seems to be no mechanism to run files like .xsession and
.xmodmap. They are referenced in /etc/X11/Xsession, which kdm does
run:

SYSMODMAP=/etc/X11/Xmodmap
USRMODMAP=$HOME/.Xmodmap
SYSRESOURCES=/etc/X11/Xresources
USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources

SYSSESSIONDIR=/etc/X11/Xsession.d
STARTUP=$HOME/.xsession
ALTSTARTUP=$HOME/.Xsession

Of these, only USRRESOURCES gets referred to again (in files in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/), though STARTUP gets re-defined as the window
manager (i.e. $STARTUP becomes "sawfish").

Am I missing something obvious or have I just mangled the
installation?

Brendan
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