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- From: chris@ods.com (Chris Atkins)
- Subject: Re: xdm and key mappings
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.211130.9929@ods.com>
- Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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- References: <1992Jul24.164719.3607@cs.tulane.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:11:30 GMT
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- wbt@cs.tulane.edu (Bill Thomason) writes:
- :
- : I'm trying to set xdm to run on our departmental workstations. I've run into
- : a slight problem. I just discovered that one of our users remaps the QWERTY
- : keyboard arrangment to DVORAK using xmodmap and the keysym command for each
- : key.
- :
- : When he finishes with his login session, the keys still remain mapped to
- : DVORAK. Needless to say, this could potentially wreak a lot of havoc on
- : most everyone using these workstations.
- :
- : I suppose he could manually remap the keys before logging out but this could
- : become a real nusance. Does anyone know of some way of automating the
- : re-mapping process so that another user could come along and be able to use
- : a QWERY keyboard arrangement?
- :
- :
- Set up a Xreset script. The script gets run as root after the user session is
- terminated.
-
- Chris Atkins
- chris@ods.com
-