Hi,
I have Key XF86PowerOff A A Exec exec sudo hibernate
Key M A CS Exec exec icedove in my config.
They stop working now.
How can I debug it ?
Thanks.
Turn off numlock. Check via xev(1) those keys map to how you’d expect. In the case of the XF86PowerOff key binding, ensure you have sudo-less passwords, or else, see gksudo.
– Thomas Adam
numlock is off. No problem with sudo.
ctrl+shift+f (for example) works fine.
If I restart fvwm without logout X, the two bindings also work.
Then it will be something along the lines of that XF86 key being an extended key – you can use one of several packages to define this – hotkeys, I think, is one such example.
– Thomas Adam
If I use xdm to start fvwm, all key bindings work fine.
But If I use startx + fvwm, some key bindings stop working.
I think this is because some key symbols are not defined by xorg at the time the binding lines are processed.
Thanks for your help.
I suspect you’ve defined keybindings in ~/.xsession and not in ~/.xinitrc as well (since startx only reads ~/.xinitrc)
You should just symlink one to the other.
– Thomas Adam
All my key bindings are defined in ~/.fvwm/config.
The problem (i think) is fvwm and X start at “the same time” if I use startx.
No, I meant in terms of using xmodmap directly.
– Thomas Adam