David Dawes writes:

>On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:29:19PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
[...]

> It'd be nice to make this configurable, and I'm sure that a patch
> to do that would be welcome.
> 
> >  There may be other ways to do this via configuring the XKB 
> >extension.  But I know next to nothing about XKB.
> 
> It's currently intercepting key events before they get passed up out of
> the DDX.  I'm not sure how feasible it would be to intercept them after
> they've been converted into X keysyms, but that might offer a more
> configurable solution.

XKB definately has support for defining "action" keys (e.g. to switch VTs or
to kill the server) and the mappings are, of course, configurable.  I thought
I had submitted a patch long ago to enable this functionality in XFree86, but
I guess I never sent it in.  I'll see if I can find it in my archives.


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