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Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Here's my Crazy Idea Of The Day: > > The question was asked a few times, whether there are keys > reserved for local customization purposes. There are none. > But we have some completely unused shift levels. The X window > system supports 8 modifiers (usually called shift, ctrl, alt, > capslock, meta, super, hyper, and-another-one). All of them > can be combined. You can have Super-Meta-Ctrl-Shift-Alt-q. > But this isn't only hard to type in for those with only > 10 fingers, it's also not supported everywhere (MS Windows?). > > What we could do, though, is to "invent" a new modifier level > for local use. One that works everywhere. By just redefining > a key that is bigger than the others and easy to hit, just > like the other modifiers ... umm ... except alt, altgr) > > Tadaaa: The TAB modifier! :-) > > With the attached simple script the TAB key becomes a modifier > that shifts all key codes up by adding 1000 to them. So, if you > press TAB-a, you get the <key n="1098"> definition triggered. > This works also in combination with regular modifiers Shift-Tab-a, > etc. (Except that Shit-Tab-a only triggers the <mod-shift> part > of "A", not "A" itself. Could easily be changed, but that's left > as an exercise to the student.) > A lot of keyboards have problems registering more than x keys (however Alt, shift and such normally work anyway). For example left arrow key, space and ctrl doesn't work together on my keyboard. I got no idea of if tab got any problems but it is worth thinking about if you add modifier keys that are not normally modifiers. Another thing, a few aircrafts use tab iirc. They will need to be updated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHUvJPWmK6ng/aMNkRCo1NAJ9EdNXybxoVrx24Yw/SjcC+AfP7qgCeNsap UKzr9v+vs7EP8nvx8imKjC4= =E3Qt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
