Why does X loses my keyboard key mapping?

[blind Pete]

blind Pete wrote:

> Petter Adsen wrote:
> 
>> On 02/08/17 01:30, Rick wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On my 16.04, I re-map some keyboard keys at login using "xmodmap
>>> /home/rick/.Xmodmap" in a shell script. I rarely log out and usually,
>>> sometime after 24 hours the system re-maps the keyboard back to its
>>> default key settings. Would anyone have any idea what would cause X to
>>> do this?
>> 
>> This is because xmodmap is now obsolete, replaced by the XKB tools.
>> xmodmap is no longer guaranteed to work correctly, and any modifications
>> made with it will be overwritten the next time an XKB tool runs.
>> 
>> Look into using setxkbmap and xkbcomp instead.
>> 
>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65507/use-setxkbmap-to-swap-the-left-shift-and-left-control/65600
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xkb_remap/
>> 
>> Petter
> 
> This is beyond my paygrade, but those links suggest that xmodmap is
> obsoleted by xkb tools.  On my system, 4.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr, it
> looks like console-setup has obsoleted xkb tools.

Typo: should read, "14.04.5". 
 
> Here is an example from my system;
> 
> $ pwd
> /etc/default
> $ cat keyboard
> # Check /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian for
> # documentation on what to do after having modified this file.
> 
> # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
> # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
> # in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> 
> #XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBMODEL="pc104"
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps"
> 
> # If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
> # specify an alternative keymap.  Make sure it will be accessible
> # before /usr is mounted.
> # KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz
> $
> 
> 
> 
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