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i3 and xmodmap

I just read your post https://www.lecigne.net/notes/i3-xmodmap.html after pulling my hair out trying to get
xbd , xmodmap, and i3 to play nice. The bit regarding /etc/default/keyboard was immensely helpful. I wanted to offer my alternate solution to this dilemma.

As you mentioned the main problem is that any call to xmodmap will get overitten when the i3 config script terminates. We must execute calls to it after this script finishes. A simple solution is to schedule these calls to happen later.

exec_always --no-startup-id sleep 1s && /usr/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 108 = Super_L'

For my config 1s is more than enough time for the rest of the script to finish, but your experience may differ.