Adding new keysyms

[Daniel Stone]

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?)

Cheers,
Daniel
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