The manpage of xmodmap states the path to XKeysymDB as /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB but in fact it is installed in /usr/share/X11/XKeysymD (see also http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210003 )
Thanks for the report. Fix pushed to git master: commit 4da097462b0b899e1790fd5a5f5e8ec811623c3d Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> Date: Mon May 11 10:16:29 2009 -0700 Bug 21675 xmodmap manpage states the wrong path to XKeysymDB http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21675 Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@sun.com> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 905e023..6d07e32 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ SED = sed XORGRELSTRING = @PACKAGE_STRING@ XORGMANNAME = X Version 11 +X11_DATADIR=$(datadir)/X11 # Where libX11 installs XKeysymDB + MAN_SUBSTS = \ -e 's|__vendorversion__|"$(XORGRELSTRING)" "$(XORGMANNAME)"|' \ -e 's|__xorgversion__|"$(XORGRELSTRING)" "$(XORGMANNAME)"|' \ @@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ MAN_SUBSTS = \ -e 's|__xconfigfile__|xorg.conf|g' \ -e 's|__projectroot__|$(prefix)|g' \ -e 's|__apploaddir__|$(appdefaultdir)|' \ + -e 's|__X11datadir__|$(X11_DATADIR)|' \ -e 's|__appmansuffix__|$(APP_MAN_SUFFIX)|g' \ -e 's|__libmansuffix__|$(LIB_MAN_SUFFIX)|g' \ -e 's|__adminmansuffix__|$(ADMIN_MAN_SUFFIX)|g' \ diff --git a/xmodmap.man b/xmodmap.man index 69b5f2d..5d52f79 100644 --- a/xmodmap.man +++ b/xmodmap.man @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ The \fIKEYSYMNAME\fP on the left hand side is translated int used to perform the corresponding set of \fBkeycode\fP expressions. The list of keysym names may be found in the header file \fI<X11/keysymdef.h>\fP (without the \fIXK_\fP prefix) -or the keysym database \fI __projectroot__/lib/X11/XKeysymDB\fP. Note that +or the keysym database \fI __X11datadir__/XKeysymDB\fP. Note that if the same keysym is bound to multiple keys, the expression is executed for each matching keycode. .TP 8
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