Xmodmap on bashrc not working

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Why won’t my xmodmap command run on startup/login?

I have my .bashrc file with the three following commands:

xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
synclient TapButton2=2
synclient ClickFinger2=3

They are supposed to execute when I log in, right? But the changes do not happen in my system (LInux Mint 12) unless I open a terminal window which will execute those commands again.

I would like to perform those commands when I log in and to remove then from bashrc, so I put them on .profile but they also keep not changing the behavior from my keyboard and touchpad.

What am I doing wrong here?

.bashrc is read when you open a terminal. .profile is read when you log in in text mode; depending on your distribution, it may or may not also be read when you log in in graphical mode. See Alternative to .bashrc — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Nov 15 '12 at 23:34

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '12 at 19:04

xmodmap only does anything once you are already in an X session (because it has to make calls to the X server), and neither ~/.bashrc (nor ~/.profile) guarantee that, nor will they be automatically executed once you enter an X session. You need to put it into your startup configuration.

If you are using startx or xinit to launch X, put this in ~/.xinitrc. If you're using something else, look at your documentation to find out where you should put startup applications.

Well, I made a small shellscript with those commands and put it to run via Mint's GUI. Thanks for your help. — Thiago Moraes, Nov 15 '12 at 19:37

Xmodmap on bashrc not working

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