Strange entries in xsession-errors

[Daniel Pittman]

Mark Fraser <kde at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> writes:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007 11:03:53 Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Mark Fraser <kde at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> writes:
>> > Just taken a look in my .xsession-errors file and I noticed some odd
>> > entries such as:
>> >
>> > /usr/bin/xmodmap:  unable to open file '/home/mfraser.Xmodmap' for
>> > reading /usr/bin/xmodmap:  1 error encountered, aborting.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > Any ideas what these errors mean? My main concern is the Xmodmap
>> > error.
>>
>> xmodmap is an older tool for changing the binding between keys on your
>> physical keyboard and their meaning to X -- such as making the 'Caps
>> Lock' key act like 'Control' or changing the keyboard layout to dvorak
>> in software.
>>
>> The specific error there is that something is instructing xmodmap to
>> read the "standard" set of per-user keyboard maps but, since the file
>> doesn't exist xmodmap complains.
>
> The thing that was concerning me was that the path didn't look right:
> /home/mfraser.Xmodmap
>
> shouldn't there be a '/ after mfraser /home/mfraser/.Xmodmap ?

Why, yes, there should.  I managed to read right past that without
noticing the missing character because I *knew* it was there.

Ahem.  You probably want to report that as a real bug upstream, since I
also have the same error -- with the same missing '/' -- at the top of
my xmodmap.[1]

The package is 'xmodmap', I think, or at least the maintainer of that
should be able to push it into the right area to get it handled.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  I also have my .xsession load the actual file I use manually so I
     never noticed this.  There you go.

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