Re: keymapping (was: Windows keys in the keymap?)

[Rudolf Kollien <Rudolf dot Kollien at medas dot de>]

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As it seems you currently work on the keyboard modules: when using the key 
combination "(right)ctrl-cursor right" or "(right)ctrl-cursor left" there is 
an white space (blank?) inserted on the first press or the cursor key. This 
only happens when you use the right ctrl-key, not by using the left one. It 
looks like pressing the right ctrl-key give's an additional char when using 
the cursor keys (only by left and right, not on up and down). ?

This is the typical key sequence when jumping word wise left or right in an 
line of text. Don't know if this is a KDE/Qt specific problem. This behavor 
was in the cygwin/XFree86 X-Server?time ago. As i remember, in the beginning 
of the year this error disapeard (don't know the release number, sorry).

Am Freitag, 9. April 2004 19:10 schrieb Harold L Hunt II:
> Some of you may have noticed that Takuma and I added a "-keyhook" option
> to XWin.exe that allows Alt+Tab to be trapped on NT-based OSes and
> passed to X apps as a normal key event.
>
> We can also do the same for the Windows keys on the keyboard, but there
> are a few problems at this time:
>
> 1) Mod4Mask was used for XK_Super_L and XK_Super_R in the information I
> could find about the Windows key in X keymaps.  However, we currently
> use Mod4Mask for XK_Kana_Lock and XK_Kana_Shift.  My first question is
> does the XK_Kana_Lock and XK_Kana_Shift ?thing even work right now?  If
> not, then we can just switch these.  If it does work, then we will have
> to change the modifier map if a Japanese keyboard layout is loaded...
> but I wonder if that is done already?
>
> 2) The Windows keys are typically mapped to XK_Super_L and XK_Super_R
> for VK_LWIN and VK_RWIN, repsectively.  I am seeing scan codes of 0x5B
> and 0x5C for the VK_LWIN and VK_RWIN keys, respectively again (note:
> yes, these are the same as the virtual key code for these keys for some
> reason).  If we want to map these keys to XK_Super_L and XK_Super_R we
> need some sort of entry in our default key map since it currently
> contains nothing about these keys.  I have tried adding an entry, but
> xev never seemed to pick up a valid key press from the Windows key when
> I was trapping and passing it through, though I do know that the
> trapping and passing was working correctly.
>
> So, who can help me figure out how to modify our default key map so that
> the Windows key will be useable under X?
>
> Harold

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