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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

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