evdev is horrible and I can't get rid of it

Eugene roginovicci at nm.ru
Sun Mar 9 12:31:52 PDT 2008


On Sunday 09 March 2008 20:53:41 Matt Dew wrote:
> On KDE using evdev, the up arrow was mapped to the print screen as well.
> I had to remap the key for each user.
that's normal behaviour. And looks like KDE fault. Try rm -Rf ~/.kde, don't 
forget to backup your kde data. And start KDE with a new life. That's should 
help.

>
> On Sunday 09 March 2008 03:31, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:43:42PM -0800, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> > > I built the git master of evdev and it does indeed look better.  My
> > > big beef with 1.2.0 is there is no emulation of the middle button,
> > > which appears to work in your latest code.  It's nice to be able to
> > > paste :)  I'm not sure why but my Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite is
> > > now misconfigured.  I changed it in the GNOME control center to be
> > > "evdev managed keyboard" and loaded the defaults.  The up arrow is
> > > printing the screen, the Print key does nothing, and my compose key
> > > (Menu) doesn't compose (it raises the menu instead).  Strangely all
> > > the right codes are reported in xev.
> >
> > I'm not sure why your Compose key is broken, but the Print thing sounds
> > like GNOME caching keycodes when it shouldn't be.  Just rebind the key.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
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