tiago wrote: > > > > > > maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but i think i didn't do a good > > job up above. the 4 keys used by sugar for network, friends, > > home, and activity _are_ F1 through F4. those keys have never > > been special, and they're not special on the new keyboard. all > > that's changed on the new keyboard is that the keys now have two > > names: the symbolic sugar icon, and the traditional F{1,2,3,4} > > name. > > > > > Nope, you read me right. I have not a good idea of what goes on in that > background(altough I knew they were the default F keys currently) so I was > asking if that was possible - to have different meanings to the F1-12 keys > and having them send another code when pressing Fn+F1-12, as it could be > reused by software(xmodmap?).
as i just mentioned replying to ben, the Fn-xx version of the function keys is available -- but i don't know whether X11 can deal with them properly. > Since you're already reusing the F keys with gnome loaded to control volume > and the backlight, it makes sense to me to have the Fn key modify the > behavior to provide the default F1-12 behavior in some way. While they're > not used constantly, they are important sometimes. I frequently ran into > this problem and there's no easy way around missing F keys in Gnome, as if > this is a common use case... probably not but I don't do deployments :| yes, i agree. unlike F1-F4, the F9-F12 keys are captured and don't produce their traditional keycodes. we need to do something about that. paul =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel