Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote on 10/05/17 07:36:
> Hi All,
>
> I decided to live dangerously (with backups) and I recently upgraded my
> laptop install from Jessie to Ascii.
> It was a full fledged installation (X and all the bells and whistles...)
> and so far so good except for a couple of little things.
>
> Slim got hit as apt-getting it throws:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> slim : Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> really minor and I didn't really investigate a lot on this, but if some of
> you has already faced it any hint would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Instead there is something more serious (to me)....
> I use a mixed XFCE environment with i3 as window manager and I was using
> xmodmap and xcape to modify some key bindings, in particular I map the
> spacebar to Hyper_L on press and xcape-ing it to space again on release, as
> per my .xmodmaprc (attached) and calling it in .profile (attached)
>
> when xfce/i3 loads the key binding is not loading on startup no matter what
> I do.
> xmodmap is complainig when in terminal emulator I run:
>
> $ . .profile
> xmodmap: commandline:1: bad add modifier name 'hyper_l', not allowed
> xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
>
> The strange thing is that CTRL-CAPS (also in xmodmaprc) swap is recognised
> initially and reverted on when I source .profile.
> Also the other mapping (keycode 94 = Control_R) seems to never work.
>
> Do you have any idea?
> Thanks in advance.

This area is not my forte, but are you quite sure of the line in
,profile that says:
xmodmap -e "add Hyper_L = $spare_modifier"

Since $spare_modifier is 'Hyper_L', it becomes:
xmodmap -e "add Hyper_L = Hyper_L"
which looks like a good candidate for gaining a complaint.