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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Pressing unconfigured key
From:       John Tapsell <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-27 8:01:08
Message-ID: 43d8ce650905270101u6cf54d43nedd20b53db36fc63 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Those are defined symbolic keys in X11 and as far as I recall most if
> not all X11 keyboard layouts for multimedia-keyboards set those
> apropriately. Hence all the user has to do is select the right keyboard
> layout. So the only problem could be that there's no keyboard layout for
> his specific keyboard and no other that works instead. But in that case
> it seems most users either fall back to defining their own xkb-mapping
> or start fiddling with xmodmap. Both of which should work if the user
> translates the keycodes to the well-known X11 symbolic keys like
> Xf86Play.

Yes, this is the case that I was thinking of.  I don't think it's
reasonable to just say that the user should fiddle with xmodmap
themselves.

(This has nothing to do with whether a particular application has mapped a key )

John
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