XI2 = moving target?

[Jim Gettys]

I guess I'm still confused...

So they'd show up as different devices with time; each time you get 
notification that the keysym mapping for the keycodes have changed.

Why is there a problem?
                        - Jim


Alan Cox wrote:
>> Ergo my question on whether anyone has ever actually seen in captivity a 
>> keyboard with more than 248 keys...
> 
> I'm not sure that is a useful question.
> 
> I have a collection of keyboards and remotes. All of them have different
> functions above 255 which could be remapped. All of them are hot
> pluggable.
> 
> Trying to manage a mapping of all the devices randomly on the fly plugged
> into a system and map them into a tiny space is rather more difficult
> than you make out.
> 
> If you had to map a set of devices, once, to a fixed mapping it wouldn't
> be a big deal, but the world has moved on from that.
> 
> Alan
> 
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