Hi!

There are some special keys on my laptop that I want to be activated during boot procedures. If I try the command >xmodmap -e 'keycode 178=F21'< from a KDE shell it works. So I added that line (and some other similar ones) to the file /etc/init.d/boot.local. But during bott it doesn't work. I receive error messages like

System Boot Control: Running /etc/init.d/boot.local
/etc/init.d/boot.local: line 16: xmodmap: command not found
/etc/init.d/boot.local: line 17: xmodmap: command not found
/etc/init.d/boot.local: line 18: xmodmap: command not found
/etc/init.d/boot.local: line 19: xmodmap: command not found
/etc/init.d/boot.local: line 20: xmodmap: command not found
/etc/init.d/boot.local: line 21: xmodmap: command not found
failed<notice>killproc: kill(1605,3)

How does it then work?

Matthias

Try the xmodmap command with a full path prefixed..

/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 178=F21'

Mad.

Does xmodmap work outside of an X environment? If not, I imagine it won't work as part of the boot process, and has to go in one of the X startup files

Well, I am one step further now. xmodmap seams to work now but there is a new error message:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap: unable to open display ''

Oneandoneis2 is correct, xmodmap needs to be run from within the X environment, this is why you are getting the 'unable to open display message'