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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>]

Hi Greg,

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:02:15 +1030
"Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:02:29 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> > To Greg Mayman, re keyboard problems
> 
> >> (and that backspace/delete problem is back and won't go away!)
> 
> > You need to either run xmodmap every time you start X (in an xterm) or put
> 
> Yes, I found that eventually.
> 
> > it into /root/.xinitrc so it will run automatically.  It is not a one-time
> > correction that stays corrected, it is a remapping that needs to be done
> > each time you run X.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> I'm online with Arachne at the moment so I can't experiment, but when I
> was last in BL, I tried to do that but "find -name xinitrc" returns
> nothing.
> 
> All the stuff i have dug up says to put it in that file, but it doesn't
> seem to exist. Do I need to create a new file with that name?

    No.   You should find it in /root
and its name is :     .xinitrc     notice the "." as the first character of 
its name.

   DOS doesn't allow that, but Linux does, and it denotes (correct me if I 
don't get this exactly right) a file that is exclusively for the use of the 
owner of the directory - in this case "root".

Regards,
         Ron

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