Derek Homeier wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:55:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:11:59PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > These packages are better than 4.0.3-x in the sense that they set the > > > model to "macintosh" instead of "pc104", too bad Xkb is broken now... > > > > once we switch to linux keycodes that has to be changed back no? > > > No, we'll probaby have two keep different keymaps at least for the > international keyboards to work properly (no, haven't created a mac-de > yet, sorry!).
If such keymaps need to be created anyway, that can be done for Linux keycodes rigth away, can't it? > BTW, what is the great advantage of Xkb over just using the console > keymaps anyway? Personally, I've disabled Xkb practically since i switched > from Xpmac to XfreeFBDev, to have only one keymap to struggle with, and > this has always been working well -- except for a few problems with > the Mod keys which I solved with Xmodmap mainly due to laziness... Xkb has nice features like disabling caps lock and probably plenty of other stuff I don't know about... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
