Radical idea for X-modmap problem.

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:06:41 -0700
"David Moffatt" <David.Moffatt at access-company.com> wrote:

> Responding to the thread about mapping hardware scan codes --> X key
> codes and keyboards with > 248 keys.
> 
> Perhaps the solution is to take the hardware scan code --> Symbol
> problem out of the X layer entirely.  Let the OS deal with that in its
> own manner.  

X has to be OS independent. It is perfectly sane in the X world to type a
key on one OS for an application running on another because you have
remote display functionality.

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