Hi, On 3 October 2012 05:34, Bill Spitzak <[email protected]> wrote: > Having read the bug, it seems extremely specific to layout switching with > shift+ctrl.
It's not. > However there are a lot of other identical bugs that prevent > things that are common on Windows from working on X: > > 1. One post mentions that hitting the "windows" key does some action, but > that makes it impossible to do windows+X shortcuts. On Windows itself the > "windows" key action only happens if you press & release it without hitting > other keys. Unrelated to XKB. > 2. I am also aware of a nice "compose key" prefix system for Windows that > cannot be done on X. It uses the "ctrl" keys for the compose key. You press > & release ctrl and then type the compose sequence. However you cannot do > this on X without breaking all the ctrl+letter shortcuts! This compose key > prefix is a hell of a lot better than shift+altGr or whatever X uses, which > is shameful because otherwise X is much better than Windows at compose. Unrelated to XKB. > I would propose that the key->event translator knows what keys are "shift" > keys. You can bind actions to them. However the action is only triggered if > the shift key is pressed & released without pressing any other keys in > between. For all other keys the bound action is triggered when the key is > pressed. Yes. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
