It seems pretty clear that this is not going to get fixed for X but could someone add a comment here for reference whether this same limitation is true or not for Wayland?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313514 Title: MASTER: evdev driver ignores keycodes > 255 Status in The Linux Kernel: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev package Version: 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5 Ubuntu 8.10 Keyboards can use keycodes that go above 255. See http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.28/include/linux/input.h These are often multimedia keys for keyboards and remotes. These are ignored by the evdev driver: gimble:~/xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912$ grep 255 src/evdev.c if (code > 255 && ev->code < KEY_MAX) { /* The X server can't handle keycodes > 255 anyway, just drop them. */ Which means they never reach X and therefore cannot be used in anyway. The only workaround at the minute would be to use input-kdb to remap all keys for an input device to values lower than 255. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/313514/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
