walt schrieb: > 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. >
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