[Xquartz-dev] 1.5.3_apple5
robert delius royar
x11 at frinabulax.org
Tue Apr 7 04:14:25 PDT 2009
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 (01:33 -0700 UTC) Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> Oh, and if anyone is interested in testing out the 1.5 server branch, you can
> grab the build here:
>
> http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11.bin-1.5.3-apple5.bz2
>
> Just download, decompress, and replace
> /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin with it (you'll want
> to install 2.3.3_rc4 first).
>
> --Jeremy
Jeremy,
I downloaded and installed both the new X11 2.3.3_rc4 and
X11.bin-1.5.3-apple5.bz2. The race condition you hypothesized involving
xmodmap shows up in this combination but did not in the 4.x server that
came with rc3. What I see is that the key assignments that I load at
the end of my startx_script do not get assigned. After trying various
places (early, middle, last) in the script to include the command
'/usr/X11/bin/xmodmap /Users/royar/.Xmodmap' and adding some
redirections to an error file for the command '/usr/X11/bin/xmodmap', I
found that from the script the modmap query showed
xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift
lock
control
mod1
mod2
mod3
mod4
mod5
But it was supposed to show
xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x40), Shift_R (0x44)
lock Caps_Lock (0x41)
control Control_L (0x43)
mod1 Alt_L (0x42)
mod2 Meta_L (0x3f)
mod3 Mode_switch (0x47)
mod4 Super_R (0x45)
mod5 Hyper_R (0x46)
I also discovered that I could get reasonable response (or reliable, at
least) if I added the following to the end of my XEmacs startup file:
(sleep-for 15)
(call-process "/usr/X11/bin/xmodmap" nil nil nil "/Users/royar/.Xmodmap")
I experimented with the sleep length; 15 was the lowest I could get to
work. I load XEmacs at the end of the script.
I also found that when my xterm starts from the start script (just
before XEmacs), running the command '/usr/X11/bin/xmodmap' gives me a
blank list of shifts and mods. After a few seconds (because of the
'sleep-for') I do see the correct assignments.
Is there a different way I can load my modmap without using the sleep
workaround (and preferably withou running the command from an elisp
program) that will assure I get my preferred mappings for all programs
that start when the server first comes up?
I know you have a new way of loading multiple files from a directory of
scripts (similar to inetd). Would that be a way to handle this instead
of the start script? If so, where should I look for instructions?
Machine: 2.1 GHz PowerPC G5
Memory: 2.5 GB
OS: 10.5.6
--
Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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