On 07/26/2009 01:56 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: > David Moffatt wrote: >> Responding to the thread about mapping hardware scan codes --> X key >> codes and keyboards with> 248 keys. >> >> Perhaps the solution is to take the hardware scan code --> Symbol >> problem out of the X layer entirely. Let the OS deal with that in its >> own manner. >> > > X already does this: keycodes in X have no need to be even remotely > similar to what the operating system does, or what the hardware generates. > > Keycodes on various other platforms may have values that bear no > resemblance to the codes used in Linux, or in IBM derivative keyboards...
Being strictly an amateur programmer, I've always wondered how many people/institutions actually use X for remote display the way it was designed to be used. Seems to introduce a great deal of confusing complexity for features many of us never use. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg