Adding new keysyms

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:23 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:14:27PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I've been fixing up the keyboard mappings for my MacBook
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8068), and they now seem
> > mostly ok. However, I'm missing useful keysyms for some of the keys on
> > the keyboard. It has more than one key to manage lcd brightness, and
> > there are keys to modify the keyboard backlight.
> > 
> > So, I want to propose the new keysyms:
> > XF86BrightnessUp, XF86BrightnessDown, XF86KeyboardLightOff,
> > XF86KeyboardLightDown, XF86KeyboardLightUp
> > 
> > These are prefixed with XF86 to match the rest of the custom ones, even
> > though this is not XFree86 anymore.
> > 
> > What do people think about this?
> 
> ACK.  Please file a bug about this and assign it to me
> (daniel at freedesktop.org in BZ) and I'll take care of it when I get home.
> 
> (One question, though: why KeyboardLightOff and not a corresponding On,
>  or an OnOff?)

Simple. My keyboard doesn't have one. I guess its really an
KeyboardLightOnOff though...

I'll file the bug.

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