On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:21:47PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:04:16PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > To send that key from an input driver you'd have to init the key class and > > > send the keycode up to the DDX. But being > 255 the server would ignore > > > it. > > > > Are there any plans about dealing with keycodes > 255? I keep noticing > > this problem in various contexts recently, and I'd like to know if > > > > * there's no known solution > > Not for core-only clients.
Are workarounds (e.g. allowing users to remap keycodes > 255 to keycodes < 255) possible, or too ugly to be allowed to see daylight? > > * there's a solution, but nobody currently has the time to work on it > > * there's a solution and somebody is working on it > > Xi2/3 and XKB2 will take care of this problem, and they're targeted > towards 1.7. Clients will need to use the Xi rather than core event API > to get these events, though. And, presumably, that can be implemented inside toolkits. Marius Gedminas -- Favorite MAC error message: "Not enough memory to eject disk!"
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