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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] backspace and X servers
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:04:47 -0600

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:00:10PM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
>
> Is there a way to see what codes are being sent out by a keyboard as a
> key is pressed?

There is a way to do this and information exists in the archive. I recall a
discussion about
it. A chap from some Scandanavian country (I believe) who needed some
alternate key mapping
showed up on the list at one point and gave some pointers about doing this. I
think Sindi
was involved in that discussion and experimented with it. That may be how she
generated her
xmodmap.84 file. I'll have to see if I can recall any possible keywords to
search under.

> It is really weird that the backspace key should work normally under the
> CLI, but wrongly with some keyboards under X.

Agreed.

> Sorry for harping on about this, but it is obvious to me that there is a
> fault in some code somewhere that should be fixed.

What does the how-to Steven pointed out have to say about it? I've never
looked at the
how-to myself and have only run across the problem referenced in a testing
scenario or two.

James




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