On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:52:36PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > - X window needs to distinguish between Meta and Alt keys > > In the PC world, Meta and Alt have traditionally been on the same key, > and a lot of users and application developers expect it to be this > way. Early versions of XFree86 104 key xkb keymaps did separate Meta > from Alt as you suggest, and the resulting configuration turned out to > be unusable with a lot of Linux software (software tuned for Sun
depends on the software - after all, it _could_ be fixed, the question is if the effort is worth the change. Anyway, more radical changes have been already implemented. I would suggest then to get rid with Super key (you are just paving a way for applications that start to use it and then sometime in the distant future it won't be practical to put it away because of those legacy applications that need it - exactly what happened with Alt and Meta to be the same key). And map Meta (just Meta) to Windows keys, and keep the possibility to choose between Alt and Alt&Meta for Alt key. > machines was usually okay). Current versions of XFree86 put both Alt > and Meta on the Alt key(s), and put Super on the Windows keys. What is Super good for? I feel that X keyboard is unnecessarily overcomplicated. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
