Hi,

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:04:16PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > To send that key from an input driver you'd have to init the key class and
> > send the keycode up to the DDX. But being > 255 the server would ignore it.
> 
> Are there any plans about dealing with keycodes > 255?  I keep noticing
> this problem in various contexts recently, and I'd like to know if
> 
>   * there's no known solution

Not for core-only clients.

>   * there's a solution, but nobody currently has the time to work on it
>   * there's a solution and somebody is working on it

Xi2/3 and XKB2 will take care of this problem, and they're targeted
towards 1.7.  Clients will need to use the Xi rather than core event API
to get these events, though.

Cheers,
Daniel

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