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I've started using a different machine recently, and was initially not
experiencing this bug.  I'm running xfce under 10.10.  IIRC I originally
installed xubuntu on this box but have also installed the ubuntustudio
package as well as kubuntu-desktop and possibly ubuntu-desktop.  Anyway
this erroneous behaviour with xmodmap, specifically

    $ xmodmap -e 'clear Lock'
    X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
      Major opcode of failed request:  118 (X_SetModifierMapping)
      Value in failed request:  0x17
      Serial number of failed request:  8
      Current serial number in output stream:  8

started when I added the Keyboard Layouts applet to a panel.  I added
the Canadian Multilingual keyboard to the initial default of US.  The
switcher combo was set to Alt+CapsLock.  At this point I had already run
this xmodmap script

    !Remap Caps_Lock as Escape
    remove Lock = Caps_Lock
    keysym Caps_Lock = Escape

which switches CapsLock and Escape.  This had been working normally up
until this point, but IIRC the keyboard setup reverted to the default
after I accepted the Keyboard Layouts preferences.  When I tried to re-
run my script, I got the above-quoted error message.

I've filed an `upstream bug report`_ which, it would appear, is not a
duplicate.

.. _upstream bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31436

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #31436
   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31436

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Title:
  xmodmap failure BadValue error, 118 (X_SetModifierMapping)