Keysym additions.

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 07:59 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:41 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Why not?  Without the rationale, just saying "was discussed but
> considered not useful" is not adding anything to the discussion.

Apologies for not remembering all the details, but I'd guess because the
internal handling already affects the keycodes generated by other keys,
rendering it useless as a modifier for some keys.


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