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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:32:30 +0100
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        Girish Kulkarni <girish@hri.res.in>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disabling Super key?
Message-ID:  <20080711123230.GA39237@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:08:18PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Sebastian Tymków wrote:
> > Did you try kbdcontrol ?
> 
> Thanks. I could do that using kbdcontrol(1) although this disables
> the Windows key only in the console and not in X, where xmodmap(1)
> does the job instead. I could make the effect of kbdcontrol
> permanent by adding a line to ~/.bash_profile. Any idea how I could
> make the effect xmodmap permanent? (Adding relevant lines to
> ~/.xsession doesn't seem to help.)

Make a ~/.xmodmaprc with your setting(s) in it and then call it from
~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc (depends on how you start X). E.g you want a
line like:

xmodmap -display :0.0 .xmodmaprc

in there.

For the kbdcontrol stuff, I put it in /etc/rc.local

> 
> Girish.
> 

Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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