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xfce4-session package

  1. Bug #97175
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 97175

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Ted Anderson (ota-surfvi) wrote : Re: xfce4-session seems to reset xmodmap

There turn out to be some annoying side-effects of disabling xkbcomp. The problems I was were that the alt key didn't work in xterm or when switching virtual terminals using crtl-alt-F1 (see bug #111372).

I have a little more data on how xkbcomp is invoked. By changing /usr/bin/xkbcomp into a shell script I was able to determine that during login it is run 3 times.

1. |-gdm(14821)---gdm(14822)---Xorg(14863)---sh(9127)---xkbcomp(9128)---xkbcomp(9129)---pstree(9131)
    Called with args: -w 1 -R/usr/share/X11/xkb -xkm - -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap com
piler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp > -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X
 server /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm

2. |-gdm(14821)---gdm(14822)-+-Xorg(14863)
        | `-Xsession(9233)---xkbcomp(9251)---xkbcomp(9252)---pstree(9254)
Called with args: /home/ota/.keymap.xkb :0

3. |-gdm(14821)---gdm(14822)-+-Xorg(14863)
        | `-sh(9233)-+-ssh-agent(9293)
        | |-xfce4-session(9338)---xfce-mcs-manage(9341)---xkbcomp(9342)---xkbcomp(9343)---pstree+
        | `-xscreensaver(9304)
Called with args: -I -I/etc/X11/xkb -xkm /tmp/fileCbGof2 /tmp/fileaVT6TK

The second of these is due to my ~/.xprofile invoking xkbcomp "by hand".

Reviewing Oliver's strace output, it seems that xfce-mcs-manager reads the output of xkbcomp (step 3 above) and sends it to the X server.