On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:01:52 -0500
"xOr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:18:46PM -0400, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > Yay!  Inherited bug!  =:D
> 
> I don't think this is a bug at all. If X doesn't recognise the
> keypresses how are the applications supposed to get a key press event
> (hint: they dont). xev uses some underneath magic, but just cuz it shows
> the key doesn't mean its modmapped (i.e. mapped to something other than
> a keycode, i.e. usable). I think that if you have your X server set up
> to not use those keys yo shouldn't expect it to use them..

Ah, but shouldn't the use of "xmodmap" to assign a keysym of Meta_L make
the key available?  xev was not only showing a keycode for the key, but
also the assigned keysym.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

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