On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:38:56PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >> >>>> It seems very unlikely that you cannot handle Czech with all >>>> combinations of 8 keys pressed, and need 9. >>> >>> A czech keyboard has the letters 'escrzyaie' with accents on the number >>> row of keys. With a Shift, they are supposed to produce the original >>> numbers, but with a CapsLock, they're supposed to produce the uppercase. >>> With a right alt or one of three czech dead keys they should produce >>> the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*() symbols. >>> >>> It's kind of logical, kind of stupid, but anyway it's the national standard. >>> >>> You can't do that currently. The main problem is that CapsLock is >>> hardcoded to work as a Shift on keys and you can't make it work >>> differently for normal letter keys and for the upper row of keys. >> >> I think the fallacy in that reasoning is the idea that the key >> labeled CapsLock has to be bound to the kernel function named capslock. > > How do you make it control the CapsLock LED then?
OK - I agree. The keyboard can do what you want, but there is no independent CapsLock LED control. Andries [not that I think the proposed change is a good idea, but now I understand why one would want to extend functionality] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
