Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello PC users! > > What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those "Window 95" > keys on all new keyboards ? > > They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch > virtual consoles, leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative > for Ctrl-alt(gr)-Fn in X and DosEmu; more, one could use them to > control X window managers leaving usual keys for applications > (e.g. Alt-Tab used by Midnight Commander is usually bound to some > sort of cycling through windows), and we could use a single-key > compose. > > Their scancodes are already seen by Linux, but I could not find any > way to bind them to a modifier (it seems there are no extra > modifiers to use). Also, I'm not good enough to fiddle with > xmodmap. Anyway I have been successfull in binding the menu-like > thing to compose: "echo keycode 127 = Compose | loadkeys". > > Is there a way to have a new modifier or we need to hack kernel? How > is Linux doing on a Sun, since they have plenty of extra keys and > modifiers? > > Maybe we could build a new keyboard mapping table? >
Hmmm... on my machine the "menu" key becomes just that - a Menu key. Xemacs seems to know about it (it brings up the same menu I see if I use mouse button 3). And, in an xterm, it sends Esc-[-2-9-~, which I happen to think is very appropriate* (but this is from someone who keeps a VT220 on the same desk and frequently connects to VMS systems.) Also, I appear to have a modifer free - Mod3: shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Multi_key (0x71) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74) mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) (as you can see, I've made the right alt my compose key) Of course, this is all X talk, and doesn't suggest anything about a new map for the console in text mode (which would be nice - I'm a bit annoyed at having one meta key for X and a different one for the text console). Also, as for what to do with all the keys a Sun has - in X, the problem has already been solved (by Sun). It should be easy to adapt the console mode from that. * ^[[29~ is the sequence sent by the "Do" key on dec VT200 terminals, and in many VMS programs this key has a somewhat similar effect to Meta-X in Emacs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
