XI2 = moving target?

Maxim Levitsky maximlevitsky at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 09:59:54 PDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:12 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> For curiosity's sake, have people actually seen keyboards with more than 
> 248 keys?

No, but plenty with keycodes > 256
(Most TV remotes fail in this category, and I still am waiting for limit
of 256 keycodes to be lifted)

>                   - Jim
> 
> 
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:43:50PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
> >> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >>
> >>>> - When will the XI2 API be finalized?
> >>> I think it is now, though I have to have a final glossover on monday to make
> >>> sure I didn't forget anything.
> >> 	Quick question: What's the maximum number of keys per keyboard it  
> >> supports?
> > 
> > num_keys in the XIQueryDevice reply is a CARD16. the current implementation
> > will still return 8-255 as min/max keycodes, at least until we can untangle
> > it from the core protocol.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   Peter
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