On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:43:19PM -0500, Stephen Ronan wrote:
> None of the remapping survivea a reboot and I'm trying
> unsuccessfully to figure out how to get it to run automatically at
> startup in this Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distro. 

There are lots of ways.  I normally would suggest that you put it in a
file called $HOME/.xsession, but it seems that some newer
distributions are ignoring this file by default, and you have to play
around with some other system files to make X read that file when you
start your session.

Historically, ~/.xsession would be an executable script (it must be
set executable or it will be ignored) that contained commands that you
wanted to run when your X login session started.  Some new
distributions will ignore that file now, if you select either gnome or
KDE logins from their GUI login box.  I remember I had to make some
change to my Ubuntu install at work for Ubuntu to notice my .xsession
file, but I can't recall what it was.  You'd probably need to read
through the shell scripts in /etc/X11 to figure it out.

As an alternative, you could try putting it in your .bashrc file.  But
it won't work unless X is running (which I assume it always is for
you, if you're not an experienced user, but...).  I'd suggest adding
something like this:

if [ -n "$DISPLAY" -a -n "$xmodmap_loaded" ]; then
  xmodmap keymap
  export xmodmap_loaded=1
fi

That should prevent your .bashrc from loading the file when either
you're not running X (i.e. you're logged in on the text console), or
when it's already been loaded.

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