Detecting the used keyboard driver
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon May 4 11:04:48 PDT 2009
Gregory Smirnov wrote:
> Hello, I use program that depends on X keycodes as well and have the
> same problem.
Your program has always been broken then - X keycodes are different
on different platforms and servers, and as kbd/evdev show, sometimes
even different drivers on the same server/platform. It has been
well documented for 20+ years that the only valid meaning of an X keycode
is to lookup a keysym in the current table and that applications should all
use keysyms, not keycodes.
> Evdev is suceeder of xkb, why *some* keycodes has just changed without
> an option to check the system for compatibility?
evdev does not suceed or replace XKB - they're two different levels of
the stack. evdev replaces xf86-input-kbd on Linux systems - both of
those drivers report up to the core Xorg server which uses XKB.
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