On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:19:40AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>
> out of interest, which documentation refers to the handling of special keys
> working without XKB?
man Xorg
KEYBOARD
The Xorg server is normally configured to recognize various special
combinations of key
presses that instruct the server to perform some action, rather than
just sending the key
press event to a client application. The default XKEYBOARD keymap
defines the key combina-
tions listed below. The server also has these key combinations builtin
to its event handler
for cases where the XKEYBOARD extension is not being used.
Last sentance above.
man xorg.conf
Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "when"
This option controls when the server uses the builtin handler to
process special key
combinations (such as Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). Normally the
XKEYBOARD extension keymaps
will provide mappings for each of the special key combinations,
so the builtin han-
dler is not needed unless the XKEYBOARD extension is disabled.
The value of when can
be Always, Never, or WhenNeeded. Default: Use the builtin
handler only if needed.
The server will scan the keymap for a mapping to the Terminate
action and, if found,
use XKEYBOARD for processing actions, otherwise the builtin
handler will be used.
Second sentance above.
To my reading, both give the impression that there is special code in the main
server event loop (no mention of keyboard driver choice) to handle the special
keys when XKEYBOARD is disabled.
So, on the assumption that your statement about the actual behaviour, being
the
intended behaviour; that seems to be at least a documentation bug.
/phx
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