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From: victoria@hera.Sbi.Com (Victoria S. Drozdov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: strange message from xmodmap
Message-ID: <483@aurora.hera.Sbi.Com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 14:59:14 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum - Salomon Brothers, NY
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ath: hera!victoria

I had an interesting problem a few days ago. 

I have an xmodmap command in my .xinitrc. All
of a sudden I got the following messages @startup
of X windows:

xmodmap:  please release the following keys within 2 seconds:
    F12 (keysym 0xffc9, keycode 10)
    F7 (keysym 0xffc4, keycode 23)
    F8 (keysym 0xffc5, keycode 24)
    KP_Decimal (keysym 0xffae, keycode 57)
    Multi_key (keysym 0xff20, keycode 74)
    backslash (keysym 0x5c, keycode 95)
    Insert (keysym 0xff63, keycode 101)
    Num_Lock (keysym 0xff7f, keycode 105)
    Caps_Lock (keysym 0xffe5, keycode 126)
    Meta_R (keysym 0xffe8, keycode 129)

The message was repeated a number of times, each time doubling
the number of seconds to 4,8,16,32. Finally I got the message:

xmodmap:  unable to set modifier mapping, keyboard problem

I have never seen these messages before. I did lose bindings of some of the
function keys. Does anyone know the possible cause of the problem???

Thanks in advance.

PS: The environment is Sparcstatation 1+, SunOS 4.1, Sun's Openwin 2.0
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