On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:48, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Most importantly, the shift and command keys are duplicate, so the right > > shift, command and alt keys are missing. (I know that they're sort of > > available with fn, but I doubt that most people consider that a viable > > solution for often-used symbols) > > Yeah, the fn-thing isn't so convienient. Do you have another idea for getting > these? Or if they're even necessary? I know that Alt_R is often used for > AltGr on European keyboards, but are the others used in a standard way?
Can't think of much else except UAE wanting right ctrl e.g., I thought of Mode_switch in particular indeed. > > > Also, does it matter if X maps a key that doesn't exist on the > > > installed keyboard? > > > > Yes, you can't use it. :) > > Well, yeah. :) But if the key is not really useful (say, Insert), I assume > there's a minimal penalty for keeping the map around with no real need, but I > would live if I couldn't use Insert. There's also delete, maybe others. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
