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Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached.

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Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:

> In the past, I wrote a script, put in the /etc/pm/sleep.d directory:
>
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633849#92
>
> but there were some issues with it, as I mentioned there.

It's also not directly applicable when the issue isn't related to
pm-utils or suspend or hibernate. I have the same annoyance as the OP,
USB keyboard connected to a USB switch so that I can switch between my
work and personal computers in my home office easily. I have an alias fk
for fix keyboard which just runs xmodmap with some input, basically it
sets Alt_R to Mode_switch and then maps a bunch of chars (20 total)
behind mode_switch.

What I see in my script where I switch the USB is a little weird. I can
run xmodmap from the script but it doesn't apply the layout. No error
either. I've tried to use a delay and that sometimes works but not
consistently. I've also tried to monitor for changes in xmodmap output
even up to a minute since that changes some time after the keyboard is
plugged in, after a while Alt_R appears on the mod1 line of xmodmap
output.

What I found just now as I played with this is that if I have just one
call xmodmap then things work. I had a leftover second call to xmodmap
which makes caps to control but I don't need that with my current
keyboard.

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xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached. Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-15 18:00 +0100
  Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached. Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-12-15 18:10 +0100
    Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached. Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-12-17 11:40 +0100
  Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached. John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2021-12-16 03:30 +0100
  Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-17 18:00 +0100

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