Re: Keycodes

[Troy Bowman <troy at dublan dot net>]

I agree.  I don't use an international keyboard, I use one of those famed
"Happy Hacking" keyboards from pfuca.com.  I have it running in "windows"
mode and have the right meta(windows) key mapped to "mode switch", so that
I can make X map characters that I need to be able two easily write in
spanish, i.e., αινσϊρΑΙΝΣΪΡ‘Ώ and so on in my xmodmaprc.

My question is, is it possible to steal one of the the windows keys (in my
case, the right windows key)  away from windows while the X server is
focused to be able to use it for a different function?

...troy.

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Since there are more and more questions about the keymaps on the list,
> I wanted to say that the current way of mapping keys is imho not the
> one expected from X.
> 
> X should return only the scancodes of the keys, not the symbol.
> 
> eg. pressing the key "a" should result in sending the keycode 38,
> which is then mapped to the keysym 0x61 (a), XWin returs keycode 71,
> and maps this to keysym 0x61 (a).
> 
> If Xwin is running standalone, there is no problem. But as soon as you
> connect to a remote system, which sets a special modmap (eg. the
> german keymap), the mapping is completely strange. The default keymap
> expects for keycode 71 the key "F5". If you try xkeycaps on Xwin, you
> will see that the keycodes are not mapped to the correct keys (not
> symbols).
> 
> If we return the correct keycodes, the modmaps from linux will work
> for xwin too.
> 
> Since i now got X to build, I will investigate the keycode problem and
> hope to provide a fix, which is closer to the linux X server.
> 
> bye
>     ago
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