[xkbcommon] How to distinguish left-shift and right-shift

[Wander Lairson Costa]

2013/9/27 Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On 27 September 2013 03:30, Ran Benita <ran234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:46:02PM -0500, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>>> Looking at weston's input.c, I am not seeing any evidence that it sends any
>>> key events due to an enter.  It does resend the modifiers, but that's
>>> different.  It doesn't make sense to me that you would send the currently
>>> depressed keys as an array and then send them again one-at-a-time.
>>
>> Hi Jason, thanks for looking.
>>
>> Right, for some reason I misread the loop in notify_keyboard_focus_in()
>> to send key events. So there's no undefined behavior here; all the
>> better. The enter + key events like I said initially should work well.
>
> Indeed, if you want to test for those.  This was kind of the problem
> our primary/secondary modifiers plan was supposed to fix: have a set
> of 'first-class' modifiers such as Shift, Control, etc, which were
> meaningful for key interpretation, as with today.  But then also add a
> set of secondary modifiers which are strictly advisory and meaningless
> on their own, e.g. LShift, RShift, etc.  But I haven't had the time to
> implement this.
>

If this will be implemented in the future, I think I will handle the
*Shift* modifier as *LShift* meanwhile.



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Best Regards,
Wander Lairson Costa