From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264443AbUE3XVY (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 19:21:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264450AbUE3XVY (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 19:21:24 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:25102 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264443AbUE3XVX (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 19:21:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 01:21:18 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Giuseppe Bilotta Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: keyboard: kernel and X Message-ID: <20040530232118.GC5927@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20040529133704.GA6258@ucw.cz> <20040529154443.GA15651@ucw.cz> <20040530114332.GA1441@ucw.cz> <20040530125918.GA1611@ucw.cz> <20040530203146.GA1941@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-DCC: dmv.com: mailhost.tue.nl 1181; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:51:18PM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Well, it's not just that, not if we want Meta kernel keys to > become Meta X keys. Which wouldn't be a bad thing, since it > would mean we'd have the keyboard acting the same under console > and X. But in this case it would be nice if Linux knew about > more modifiers than just shift, ctrl, alt, meta. The X and kernel systems are incompatible. The Linux kernel has 8 modifiers. Any key can be a modifier. Read keymaps(5).