Re: xmodmap keybinding for god-mode

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Monday, December 15, 2014 12:37:50 AM UTC+5:30, Steven Arntson wrote:
> Rusi  writes:
> 
> > On Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:35:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steven Arntson wrote:
> >> This question is more about xmodmap than god-mode, but ...
> >> 
> >> I'm starting to use god-mode and really enjoying it. There are some
> >> directions on the maintainer's website about remapping esc to caps_lock,
> >> for easier toggling of the mode, by writing a .xmodmap file, viz:
> >> 
> >> | remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> >> | keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
> >> 
> >> I saved that to my ~/ and then from eshell I ran:
> >> 
> >> | xmodmap .xmodmap
> >> 
> >> And everything worked as it should. However, it doesn't keep working
> >> that way. The rebinding turns itself off if the computer goes to sleep
> >> for awhile, or if I restart. Is there a way to make that rebinding
> >> permanent?  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Emacs 24.4.1.
> >> 
> >> Thank you!
> >> Steven
> >
> > xmodmap is considered obsolete (or at least obsolescent)
> >
> > setxkbmap is more current.
> >
> > However more window-manager specific stuff is probably best
> > Does this help?
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey
> 
> 
> Emacswiki can be frustrating when there are so many outdated comments (I
> see my current xmodmap approach there, for instance).

Heh!
On wikipedia a moron-army cleans out any useful stuff to reduce it to
canonical form.
On emacswiki no cleaning -- There are pages for emacs 20 !!