Re: [AD] linux keyboard mapping?

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-10-16, Eric <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When writing the events API prototype, I got more details on the problem
> > (as well as learning X, finally).  The problem is that X only tells us
> > "Keysyms" which is something between a physical key and a character
> 
> Huh... the last time I tried, X returned raw keycodes too, which are of
> course server-dependent. The XKeyEvent structure contains the following
> member according to Volume One of the O'Reilly guide:
> 
> typedef struct {
>    ...
>    unsigned int keycode;   /* server-dependent code for the key */
>    ...
> } XKeyEvent;

Sorry, I forgot the terminology.  That's what I meant when I wrote
"keysym" above.  You still don't know which physical key caused the
keycode.

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