Keysym additions.

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:24 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> > I'm referring to the (typically labeled blue) Fn key you find on
> > keyboards that let you synthesize other keys.  Rather than it being
> > entirely dead to the window system, we see no reason to not allow it to
> > be a fully fledged key and usable in other ways.
> 
> Right, I'm aware of the Fn key.  But given that its behaviour is that of
> a modifier, it would presumably be best to find and steal a modifier
> before adding our own.  Bear in mind that this would be a special case
> for OLPC as no-one else that I'm aware of sends Fn; they all do it in
> hardware.

On newish Apple laptops (those with USB keyboards), the Linux kernel can
optionally generate a keycode for fn instead of handling it internally.
IIRC the behaviour Jim mentions for OLPC (handling it internally but
generating a keycode as well) was discussed but considered not useful.


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