Re: I lose characters because keycode of Fn is same than DEL

[Phil Betts <phil dot betts at gmail dot com>]

On 23 June 2011 12:34, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 10/06/2011 10:33, Paul Maier wrote:
>>
>> on a a IBM Lenovo Laptop T60 there is a "Fn" key to adjust the screen
>> brightness and such.
>>
>> That "Fn" key has the same keycode than the DEL key.
>> Therefore I can't change the Fn key with xmodmap (because I would change
>> the DEL key the same way.)
>>
> ...
> I think this is a bug in the way XWin translates Windows keystrokes into X
> keycodes.
>
> Can you run the X server with the extra option '-logverbose 3' and report
> what is written to /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log when you press the Fn key.

Since the OP hasn't responded, I have the same problem on a Lenovo R500
laptop.  Running as suggested produces this when the Fn key is pressed:

[   710.350] winTranslateKey: wParam 000000ff lParam 01630001
[   710.350] winSendKeyEvent: dwKey: 99, fDown: 1, nEvents 3
[   710.366] winTranslateKey: wParam 000000ff lParam c1630001
[   710.366] winSendKeyEvent: dwKey: 99, fDown: 0, nEvents 2

and this when the Delete key is pressed:

[   730.240] winTranslateKey: wParam 0000002e lParam 01530001
[   730.240] winSendKeyEvent: dwKey: 99, fDown: 1, nEvents 2
[   730.349] winTranslateKey: wParam 0000002e lParam c1530001
[   730.349] winSendKeyEvent: dwKey: 99, fDown: 0, nEvents 2

Phil

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