XI2 = moving target?

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sat Jul 25 17:37:27 PDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:59:54PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 
> > 248 keys?
> 
> No, but plenty with keycodes > 256
> (Most TV remotes fail in this category, and I still am waiting for limit
> of 256 keycodes to be lifted)

keycodes are 32 bit in XI2, though to get full support for that we also need
XKB2. Right now, we still cap at keycodes > 255. this is an implementation
issue though, not a protocol restriction.

Cheers,
  Peter



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