On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Lionel Orry <lionel.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:58:46 +0200 Lionel Orry <lionel.o...@gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:16:21 +0200 Lionel Orry <lionel.o...@gmail.com> 
>>> > said:
>>> >
>>> >> On my french keyboard I can't access a 'keyname' field of key down
>>> >> event with the value 'grave'. I made tests and it seems we need to use
>>> >> 'key' instead...
>>> >>
>>> >> Raster, can you please use 'ev->key' instead of 'ev->keyname' in
>>> >> termio.c ? Seems to work for me.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks a lot for the feature btw :D
>>> >
>>> > what does the ` (or ~) key produce when u press it by itself in key? (vs
>>> > keyname)?
>>>
>>> The ` character is produced using AltGr+è (see
>>> http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/Images/help/kfrench.gif) so in that case we
>>> get "grave" as 'key' field, "egrave" as 'keyname' field and ` as
>>> 'string' field. I've not tried with the ~ key but it's a totally
>>> different one (see the illustration) and I think you get the point.
>>
>> whats the "2" key on the top-left of the kbd? that key? for me it's "grave" 
>> or
>> "backtick" or "backquote" its what i use in the shell to replace with stdout:

To answer you precisely, here is what a trace gives me when I press
that key (²):

ev->key: "twosuperior" - ev->keyname: "twosuperior" - ev->string: "²"

Lionel

>>
>> rm `find / -name *.jpg`
>>
>> that `
>
> Yes this is the character I am talking about, a backtick. The '2' key
> on the top left side of a French keyboard is simply a square (power 2)
> symbol: --> ²
>
> As a matter of fact (I just tried), this key with the modifier Shift
> displays a tilde (~) under terminology. But I suppose it depends on
> the xkbd variants, extensions, and maybe the exact locale too, not
> sure.
>
> Now the question is, you want to map a geographically placed key on
> the keyboard (i.e. the key on the top-left side) or you want to map a
> character? I believe mapping a character makes more sense (as does
> your readme line as well: Alt+backtick). And we are lucky, evas gives
> us the computed value of the character directly, when modifiers are
> applied (in my case, Alt-Gr).
>
> Simply using ev->key instead of ev->keyname would work for everyone
> IMO, even though we don't have the same geographically keys to push.
> All foreign keyboards users are used to it anyway, but the cleanest
> way is to check for the computed character name, "grave" in our case.
>
> Aside note, to do this shortcut on a french kbd we actually have to
> press Alt+AltGr+è (three keys). But as I said, we are used to weird
> shortcuts, as long as they correspond to the documentation... And
> then, when it is configurable, we re-configure it.
>
>>
>> --
>> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
>> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com
>>

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