On 2015-08-09 12:39:32 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > If everything was not already complicated enough, shift, control and > caps-lock have each a fixed value in the state mask, but all the other > modifiers (from num-lock to alt-gr, including meta and super) arrive to the > application as mod1 to mod5, with an arbitrary mapping. Applications (or > toolkits) that want to allow alt- or meta-prefixed shortcuts are supposed to > inspect the key mapping table to identify the correct modX. They usually get > it wrong, frequently hard-coding mod1 = alt (to react to it) and mod2 = > num-lock (to ignore it).
And now the Alt/Meta modifier should be called Alt instead of Meta as some applications (e.g. Firefox) don't support Meta. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150809112524.ga6...@ioooi.vinc17.net
