[PLUG] xmodmap Stopped Working

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Mon Apr 7 19:12:22 UTC 2014


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2014, Ken Stephens wrote:
>
>> The obvious question unanswered here is what did you do last week?
>> Anything like restore some file, install a new application, update an
>> application?
> Ken,
>
>     Not that I can recall. Actually, the answer is almost certainly "no"
> because I was focused on a document's writing and fixing access and
> permission issues with the new accounting software (httpd, perl code,
> postgres back end). All when running the X Window System.
>
>     My Web searches, using multiple search terms, turned up one of my
> linuxqustions.org posts from ~ 4 years ago on this topic that was never
> answered (and I don't recall how I resolved it then), and multiple folks
> with the same problem of xmodmap just stopping work on a range of
> distribuitons (slackware, debian, arch). Apparently, it's not just me or
> just now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
Rich,

What permissions did you play with?  Would they have something in common 
with the X windows?

Ken



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