Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-13 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Peter Hutterer writes: >> After reading the website, I was able to translate most of my xmodmap >> rules into a new xkb symbol file. However, I am facing problems in >> setting up the modifiers. [...] >> How can I accomplish that? Is there some way to clean up the modifier >> table (like with xmod

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:51:46PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Marius Gedminas writes: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:19:57PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> I noticed a very strange thing about xmodmap. Apparently, the > >> semantics of the > >> > >> keycode = > >> > >> command depend

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:01:43PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:58:52PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:51:46PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Thanks a lot. It seems that the use of xmodmap is actua

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:58:52PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:51:46PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>> Thanks a lot. It seems that the use of xmodmap is actually deprecated, >>> is it? >> >> Looking back at the previous maili

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:58:52PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:51:46PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Thanks a lot. It seems that the use of xmodmap is actually deprecated, > > is it? > > Looking back at the previous mailing discussion, "deprecated" is probably > the

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:51:46PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Thanks a lot. It seems that the use of xmodmap is actually deprecated, > is it? Looking back at the previous mailing discussion, "deprecated" is probably the wrong spelling to apply to this issue. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisib

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-12 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Marius Gedminas writes: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:19:57PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I noticed a very strange thing about xmodmap. Apparently, the >> semantics of the >> >> keycode = >> >> command depend on the keycode. > > Yes. > > You may find reading about XKB enlightening: http:

Re: xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-11 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:19:57PM -0500, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I noticed a very strange thing about xmodmap. Apparently, the > semantics of the > > keycode = > > command depend on the keycode. Yes. You may find reading about XKB enlightening: http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/ or http://www.c

xmodmap: different keys have different keycode semantics?

2009-02-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I noticed a very strange thing about xmodmap. Apparently, the semantics of the keycode = command depend on the keycode. For example, when I assign the keysyms like this: keycode 25 = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 keycode 38 = a b c d e f g h i j I get the following results (generated k