Hi, On 17 March 2012 16:24, <[email protected]> wrote: >> At the moment it just means they won't work in Wayland, but support >> might (might) be removed from the X server at some stage too. Is >> there any reason you can't just use a locked group or level rather >> than an overlay? > > I currently use overlays to have five layouts in my keymap, which is not > possible with using groups alone. Admittedly, this is more for fun than > really useful, but I have seen that some people require more than the > four groups that XKB supports. Overlays allow to work around this > restriction.
Ah. Well, the plan is to extend libxkbcommon to allow more than four groups - this is already mostly done. XI2 already supports higher groups, so the bulk of the work would be in fixing the XKB wire protocol. > Another use of overlays you will see when you try to put control keysyms > or keypad keysyms (such as Next and KP_Add) on a higher level of a > "usual" key (see, for example, de(neo) in xkeyboard-config). This > creates trouble with various applications (for example, Xt applications > such as xterm). If one uses overlays instead of levels, these problems > can be worked around. Redirect actions are an even more powerful > alternative, but they are harder to use. Interesting - which problems does this cause exactly? Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
