On 03-Jan-2002 Jan Schaumann wrote: > scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It never did make any sense to me why the lock keys should >> affect something like ALT+Click. > > Just to nitpick: It makes "sense" in so far as the WM does receive two > different events (IIRC, I may be wrong here) depending on whether one of > the lock keys is on or not. Just like "S" is different from "s" - all > that's different is that one of the "lock"-keys is on (shift-lock, in > this case). >
The code is actually about twice as long and much less obvious to work around modifier keys. > From a user point of view, it's of course a bit annoying and I also > welcome the change (even if I don't use it due to my very happy > arrangement with bbkeys, which allows me to avoid the hated rodent > almost entirely). > Many of us even viewed it as a feature, not a bug. Sometimes when using certain applications, getting the keypress to be local to the app or global to bbkeys was not easy. Simply enabling a lock modifier disabled the keybindings long enough for us to work in the program.
