Keysyms: HomePage vs WWW

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Sun Nov 30 16:46:32 PST 2008


>>>>> "Sergey" == Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udaltsov at gmail.com> writes:

Sergey> Unfortunately, as we all know, XKB ... cannot distinguish
Sergey> application launch context from application control context.

Apologies for ambiguity.  These are two completely different keys at the
USB level; it is really the keyboard manufacturer who decides which the
key is.  

If keyboards which use <I32> with the kbd driver generate <I158> in
evdev I'd make <I32> be WWW and if they generate <I180> when using evdev
then HomePage.  (I presume the mapping between keycodes/xfree86's <I32>
when using kbd and keycodes/evdev's <I158> or <I180> when using evdev is
consistant across all keyboards.)

Sergey> I just want some consistent approach, you know...

I agree with that!

-JimC
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