[PATCH] xfree86: update man page for special keys handling.

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Dec 14 09:05:02 PST 2009


Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com>

(Ignore my comment on previous patch, since I see now that this covers it.)

	-alan-

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> SpecialKeyHandling was removed from the kbd driver with version 1.4.0. Since
> this is the only version that will build against server 1.7+ it's not
> reasonable to mention it in the man page. Reword, point to XKB instead and
> make clear that some key combinations _may_ not be available in any given
> config.
> 
> Reported-by: Derek Fawcus
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> ---
>  hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre |   16 +++++-----------
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre
> index 98a9590..bb5a14f 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/Xorg.man.pre
> @@ -421,18 +421,12 @@ The
>  .B __xservername__
>  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 combinations listed below.
> -The kbd (__drivermansuffix__) driver also has these key combinations
> -builtin to its event handler
> -for cases where the XKEYBOARD extension is not being used.  When using
> -the XKEYBOARD extension, which key combinations perform which actions
> -is completely configurable.
> +than just sending the key press event to a client application. These actions
> +depend on the XKB keymap loaded by a particular keyboard device and may or
> +may not be available on a given configuration.
>  .PP
> -The special combinations of key presses recognized directly
> -by
> -.B __xservername__
> -are:
> +The following key combinations are commonly part of the default XKEYBOARD
> +keymap.
>  .TP 8
>  .B Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>  Immediately kills the server -- no questions asked. It can be disabled by

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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