Howto handle modified keys

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:39:29PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Philip Pflästerer wrote:
...
> > So how can I handle modified keys?
> 
> Look in the state field of the key event, there's Mod[1..4]Mask
> available.  I think Alt is generally Mod4.  So a key press of f with
> Mod4Mask in state, means Alt-F.

Generally.  But if someone's used xmodmap to change things, it's not.
(xterm looks for this type of information - near the bottom of input.c).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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