[ILUG] ssh and xmodmap

[raoul duke]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0100, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> 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?
> 

i'm no expert here, but why don't you make $STARTUP constantly point to
$HOME/.xsession and then inside ~/.xsession put sawfish and all your other
startup commands? i think you have to put a & after each command

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