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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I am setting up openbox on my laptop running Linux Mint 13. I want my Caps Lock key to act as an additional control key. I put the required settings in my ~/.Xmodmap file and checked it by running xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap It works correctly. However when I relogin to my openbox session, these key changes are not present. Running the above xmodmap command gets it working again, but I want it to happen automatically at startup. What's interesting is that I added a test zenity command as following to my ~/.config/openbox/autostart file zenity --info --text=Hello This produces a small dialog win (HowTos)

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altercation wrote:This works here in testing (in, say, a bash script or on the command line)setxkbmap -option # reset everything to default state! xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock" xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Lock = F13"Did you try it with an openbox keybind? If so, did it launch or do whatever behavior you set it for?

Hello,My laptop (a Thinkpad T40) didn't come with a super key, so I made an .Xmodmap file to turn CapsLock into super. Then, to make the change take place automatically every time I booted up, I put(sleep 1s && xmodmap /home/tmacdonald/.Xmodmap) & in autostart.sh. The problem is that it doesn't do anything.

I'm using Xmodmap to customise some non-standard keys on my keyboard. Using GDM to get X, I am running Xmodmap ("xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmap") as a startup job in gnome-session-properties.The customisations work well, but if I leave X and then return -- say, to check on of the *top programs running in a TTY -- the Xmodmap customisations are gone.

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I have my .bashrc file with the three following commands:

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Hi there,

I'm a little confused about the automatic startup of Xmodmap.

I followed some post a while ago, and it said to make an ~/.xmodmap file like so:

! Swap caps lock and escape remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Escape = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape add Lock = Caps_Lock

I did, and it now I can swap esc and caps lock by doing xmodmap ~/.xmodmap.

Hello,I'm using Statler on an IBM T40, which doesn't have a designated super key. However, I found some Xmodmap trickery on the internet, which turns off Caps Lock and sets the button to act as super. I did that on #! 9.04 too, and it works great. On Statler, however, Xmodmap won't load when I first boot up. I have to restart  X and log in--which is pretty annoying.

I recently upgraded by thinkpad X220 from F17 using fedup --network, and since then my xmodmap settings are undone every time I suspend/resume the laptop.

Something similar was reported previously:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692760

however, I've never noticed this before.

For now I'm just leaving a terminal window open and manually re-running xmodmap after each resume,

I know how to use xmodmap to remap the Caps lock key so it acts as a Control key, or as an Escape key.