On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:58:46 +0200 Lionel Orry <lionel.o...@gmail.com> said: > >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:16:21 +0200 Lionel Orry <lionel.o...@gmail.com> >> > said: >> > >> >> On my french keyboard I can't access a 'keyname' field of key down >> >> event with the value 'grave'. I made tests and it seems we need to use >> >> 'key' instead... >> >> >> >> Raster, can you please use 'ev->key' instead of 'ev->keyname' in >> >> termio.c ? Seems to work for me. >> >> >> >> Thanks a lot for the feature btw :D >> > >> > what does the ` (or ~) key produce when u press it by itself in key? (vs >> > keyname)? >> >> The ` character is produced using AltGr+è (see >> http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/Images/help/kfrench.gif) so in that case we >> get "grave" as 'key' field, "egrave" as 'keyname' field and ` as >> 'string' field. I've not tried with the ~ key but it's a totally >> different one (see the illustration) and I think you get the point. > > whats the "2" key on the top-left of the kbd? that key? for me it's "grave" or > "backtick" or "backquote" its what i use in the shell to replace with stdout: > > rm `find / -name *.jpg` > > that `
Yes this is the character I am talking about, a backtick. The '2' key on the top left side of a French keyboard is simply a square (power 2) symbol: --> ² As a matter of fact (I just tried), this key with the modifier Shift displays a tilde (~) under terminology. But I suppose it depends on the xkbd variants, extensions, and maybe the exact locale too, not sure. Now the question is, you want to map a geographically placed key on the keyboard (i.e. the key on the top-left side) or you want to map a character? I believe mapping a character makes more sense (as does your readme line as well: Alt+backtick). And we are lucky, evas gives us the computed value of the character directly, when modifiers are applied (in my case, Alt-Gr). Simply using ev->key instead of ev->keyname would work for everyone IMO, even though we don't have the same geographically keys to push. All foreign keyboards users are used to it anyway, but the cleanest way is to check for the computed character name, "grave" in our case. Aside note, to do this shortcut on a french kbd we actually have to press Alt+AltGr+è (three keys). But as I said, we are used to weird shortcuts, as long as they correspond to the documentation... And then, when it is configurable, we re-configure it. > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
