[xmodmap] Problem with e and n

Dirk Wallenstein halsmit at t-online.de
Mon Nov 16 11:06:18 PST 2009


On Monday 16 November 2009 19:09:11 walter harms wrote:

> any idea why this BadAllocmay show up ? i have plenty of ram,
> and the resulting keymap.xkb seems resonable.
> 
> xkbcomp -xkb ${DISPLAY} -o keymap.xkb
> Warning:          Could not load keyboard geometry for :0.0
>                   BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>                   Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry


By means of the geometry description it is possible to draw a picture of
diverse keyboards. This info is of no value in the server (it only occupies
space) and can be obtained separately. Thus you can ignore those warnings. If
you want to see some of those keyboard pictures you can try `xkbprint`




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