Radical idea for X-modmap problem.

[walt]

On 07/26/2009 01:56 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
> David Moffatt 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 already does this: keycodes in X have no need to be even remotely
> similar to what the operating system does, or what the hardware generates.
>
> Keycodes on various other platforms may have values that bear no
> resemblance to the codes used in Linux, or in IBM derivative keyboards...

Being strictly an amateur programmer, I've always wondered how many
people/institutions actually use X for remote display the way it was
designed to be used.  Seems to introduce a great deal of confusing
complexity for features many of us never use.