I have an iBook with a US keyboard layout, and I'm having a wierd problem I
hope you can help with.
The mac keyboards have a "keypad equals" key. X doesn't support that as
separate from regular equals, but I'd like to use it to type equals. The
problem is that both this KP-equals and the left-arrow key have the same
keysyms. If I try to modify one, I modify both.
Here's the relevent xev output:
KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 35558015, (180,101), root:(183,519),
state 0x0, keycode 100 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 35558135, (180,101), root:(183,519),
state 0x0, keycode 100 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 35560194, (180,101), root:(183,519),
state 0x0, keycode 100 (keysym 0xff51, Left), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
I am actually hitting different keys here, but it doesn't look like it.
What is wierd is that these keys generate different keysyms and characters on
the console. I type an '=' with both keys (on Debian sid).
I had a suggestion to look in the XF86 keyboard code. Does anyone here have an
idea of which files to start to look in? Will this be a C-code problem or a
configuration issue somewhere? Or does anyone know how to see the scancodes
that X thinks I have?
Here's the version info from the top of the XFree86.0.log:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (DRI mach64-0-0-6-branch)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-ben8-xfs-lolat ppc [ELF]
I'm using the Xserver packages that Michael D�zner provides. Do you need any
other info?
Thanks for any help,
Frank
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