Comment 10 for bug 373260

any tips- I'm not familliar with the /etc/X11/Xsession file. It looks like
a standard bourne shell script- I'm jsut not sure what command I need to
call to parse .Xmodmap?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Akos Ladanyi <email address hidden>wrote:

> Actually this is not really a bug: this is simply not implemented. In
> case of Ubuntu gdm runs xmodmap, in case of Kubuntu nothing. I guess the
> proper solution would be that /etc/X11/Xsession would process ~/.Xmodmap
> instead of gdm, like it does with all similar files (like ~/.Xresources,
> ~/.xsessionrc, etc.). Maybe this bug needs to be reassigned to the gdm
> and/or X maintainers.
>
> --
> ~/.Xmodmap does not get loaded
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373260
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> Status in “kdebase” source package in Ubuntu: New
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> Bug description:
> ~/.Xmodmap does not get loaded on Kubuntu 9.04. When manually executing
> 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' the key mappings get loaded properly.
>