From: Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>
To: 69182@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69182: home-xmodmap-service-type requires restart to work
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:38:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0hakgv0.fsf@retrospec.tv> (raw)
I recently set up home-xmodmap-service-type so I could change the
PrtSc key on my ThinkPad into a Hyper modifier. This is my
configuration:
(service home-xmodmap-service-type
(home-xmodmap-configuration
(key-map '("clear mod3"
("remove mod4" . "Hyper_L")
("keycode 107" . "Hyper_R")
("add mod3" . "Hyper_L Hyper_R")))))
However, after logging into an EXWM session, the PrtSc key is a
Super modifier, not Hyper. The service appears to be starting
successfully:
l0p!ieure~$ herd status xmodmap
Status of xmodmap:
It is running since 11:20:59 AM (35 seconds ago).
Running value is #t.
It is enabled.
Provides (xmodmap).
Requires ().
Will be respawned.
The output of `xmodmap -pm' reports:
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in
parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock
control Control_L (0x25), Control_L (0x42), Control_R
(0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Alt_L (0xcc),
Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3 ISO_Level5_Shift (0xcb)
mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce),
Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c)
Some of my configuration is applied, while other parts are not:
- "clear mod3" isn’t working; mod3 is ISO_Level5_Shift, which is
the default.
- "remove mod4 = Hyper_L" isn’t working. Hyper_L is still on mod4
(which is the super modifier), which is the default.
- "add mod3 = Hyper_L Hyper_R" isn’t working.
- The "keycode 107 = Hyper_R" config *is* working, which is what
makes PrtSc a super modifier.
If I restart the service, the modifiers work as expected:
l0p!ieure~$ herd restart xmodmap
Service xmodmap has been started.
l0p!ieure~$ guix shell xmodmap -- xmodmap -pm
xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in
parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock
control Control_L (0x25), Control_L (0x42), Control_R
(0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Alt_L (0xcc),
Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3 Hyper_R (0x6b), Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod4 Super_L (0x85), Super_R (0x86), Super_L (0xce)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c)
I haven’t set up anything else that manipulates keymaps, so I’m
not sure why this isn’t working after login.
I had a suspicion that another service might be running after
xmodmap and changing the keymap. The only home service that looks
like it might do that is x11-display. However, copying
`home-xmodmap-service-type' and `my-xmodmap-shepherd-service' into
my home.scm and editing it to add (requirement '(x11-display)) to
the shepherd-service doesn’t fix the issue.
This appears to be a timing problem. If I remove the service from
my home configuration, but manually run `guix shell xmodmap --
xmodmap /gnu/store/g3hgzx8za4qrrdgn5hjqd80gxkb6sifx-config' after
I log in (the file being the xmodmap configuration created by
`serialize-xmodmap-configuration'), the keymap is set up how I
declare it. So *what* home-xmodmap-service-type does is correct;
but *when* it does it is not.
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2024-02-17 19:38 Ian Eure [this message]
2024-02-19 19:16 ` bug#69182: home-xmodmap-service-type requires restart to work Nicolas Graves via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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