Hi Giovanni and DNG list,

Thank you for your help!
I've actually managed to solve my issues.
I have partially solved them applying Giovanni's suggestion, but the
problem was actually stemming from /etc/default/keyboard configuration.
On dist-upgrade that somehow got the capslock ctrl swap setting
Applying of Xmodmap was actually reverting the swap on x startup generating
A LOT of confusion. After straightening that also the modifier mapping went
OK.

I can now confirm a (almost) flawless upgrade of jessie to ascii of a fully
configured installation. Hardware is HP x360 13 laptop.

As often happens with FOSS, problems are a source of learning and knowledge
which led me to a better xmodmap configuration than the one a started with.

Thank you once more and long live Devuan.

Cheers,
Antonio.
On 10 May 2017 8:53 am, "Giovanni Rapagnani" <tjs434@???> wrote:

> On 09/05/17 23:36, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> Hello Antonio,
>
> You should first remove a specific function (Control_R) from its global
> function (Control) before binding a new keycode to it. An example will be
> more clear:
>
> instead of doing:
> keycode 94 = Control_R
> add Control = Control_R
>
> do:
> remove Control = Control_R
> keycode 94 = Control_R
> add Control = Control_R
>
>
> About assigning Hyper_L to mod3. On my system Hyper_L is bound to mod4.
> You can verify if it applies to yours by executing 'xmodmap' without
> arguments. So I first need to unbind it from mod4, then bind it to mod3.
>
> remove mod4 = Hyper_L
> add mod3 = Hyper_L
>
> Hope this helps,
> Giovanni
>
>
> Do you have any idea?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Antonio
>>
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