On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:12:23PM -0700, Ping Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0700, Ping Cheng wrote:
> > > I am lost in my own backyard ;(.
> > >
> > > Can we still set a keystroke which has one of these keys: "NumLock",
> > "PgUp",
> > > "PgDn", "End"?
> >
> > Any key that's a valid X keysym should be parsed provided it can be found
> > in
> > the current keymap. But the spelling is important: Num_Lock
> > "End" should just work since it's a valid keysym.
> >
>
> That's Great. Is there a way for end users (count me as one :) to get a list
> of those special ones without looking into the code? A "xsetwacom list
> #something", "man xsetwacom", or examples at
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=Xsetwacom
> would
> be very helpful.
no there is no list and I'm not planning on adding one.
the point of the special keysyms is to ease configuration for people who're
just trying to guess the keys. the value has to be a valid keysym, it just
happens that we parse a few more so that if you type "f11" we'll recognize
that you really meant "F11" etc.
> > For PgDn/PgUp ("Prior" and "Next") it's not as obivous so that warrants
> > specialcasing. See attached patch.
> >
> > > Also, do we plan to display the keys when user issues "xsetwacom get"
> > when a
> > > keystroke is defined? If we want desktop UI to convert the keycodes to
> > its
> > > localized language, how do they get the keycodes?
> >
> > two separate issues here:
> > xsetwacom has a bug and doesn't set keys atm. see
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27184850
> > I'm about to push the fix for this though.
> >
> > With the fix in it works
> > $> xsetwacom get "Wacom Intuos4 6x9 pad" Button 2
> > key +Prior -Prior
> >
> > the other issue:
> > any desktop UI that relies on xsetwacom output is broken by
> > design. a UI should do what xsetwacom does in the background (read the
> > property, extract keycodes, convert to keysyms etc.) but not rely on
> > xsetwacom directly.
>
>
> Can you add the UI information to
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=External_applications#Graphical_Configuration_Tools
> so
> people know what to do when they need to process keystrokes in their apps?
it's a wiki, please feel free to add it.
Cheers,
Peter
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