Changing hal-info to have X friendly key symbols

Sébastien Mazy melyadon at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 04:57:02 PST 2009


Hello Martin,

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:48:43PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Sometimes hal-info assigns key symbols which are > 255; However, X.org
> currently cannot use those [2], and fixing this requires a protocol
> change. After 25 years of X11, X12 won't happen anytime soon, so we
> shouldn't hold our breath for it.

Yes, we should. See:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2009-January/012794.html
and:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-January/042441.html


Cheers,

-- 
Sébastien Mazy


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