On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 01:20:34PM -0500, Marty Jack wrote: > There is a part of the keyboard description called the Compatibility Map. > This is supposed to be for clients that predate Xkb, and gives rules for how > to map Xkb modifier events onto pre-Xkb events. > > It's also the case that is a huge part of the Xkb description, almost the > size of the Geometry section that some have said is excess baggage these days. > > It's been a few decades since we had a server/client that predated Xkb. So > the question is, how much of the Compatibility Map isn't excess baggage these > days, and is there something essential that it must continue to do.
The compat map is used to translate keysyms into server actions like switch-vt. You could get rid of it by translating a keymap on the client side. It's in the server to allow partial remapping with xmodmap. I don't think that's necessary. You can load a full keymap as well. -- Greetings, Dirk _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
