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Running key remap script at startup

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I'm trying to re-map my left Alt key to the Alt Gr and Alt Gr to left Alt. So far I've been able to do it in terminal, but it never runs it on start up. I've read multiple Ask Ubuntu questions, but none of them have worked so far.

I have tried multiple commands and methods, but none of them worked

Putting the script in /etc/rc.local like this:

sh /home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

Adding it in cron

@reboot sh /home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

@reboot bash /home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

/home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

Putting it in /etc/init.d/

/etc/init.d/alt_to_gr.sh

Adding it as a startup program, the command being

/home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

sh /home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

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answered 2 Years ago ainbby · Accepted Answer

Solved it myself

The second post here solved it
Add the following line to the command field in Startup Applications

/home/dani/Scripts/altgr_to_alt.sh

And here is what the script looks like if someone is wondering

#!/bin/bash

echo "Changing keys..."

xmodmap -e "clear mod1"



xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Alt_L Meta_L"

xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift"

xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L"



echo "Changed keys!"

echo

You have to make it executable if you want to run it at startup. I did this with
chmod 755 altgr_to_alt.sh