Detecting the used keyboard driver

[Gregory Smirnov]

2009/5/4 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>

> 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.
>
>
But total dependency on keysyms is wrong as well. That is why Copy/Paste
(Ctrl+C/V) does not work properly in multi-language environments.
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