Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:38:56 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] keytables - the new keycode->keysym mapping |
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > It seems very unlikely that you cannot handle Czech with all > > combinations of 8 keys pressed, and need 9. > > A czech keyboard has the letters 'escrzyaie' with accents on the number > row of keys. With a Shift, they are supposed to produce the original > numbers, but with a CapsLock, they're supposed to produce the uppercase. > With a right alt or one of three czech dead keys they should produce > the !@#$%^&*() symbols. > > It's kind of logical, kind of stupid, but anyway it's the national standard. > > You can't do that currently. The main problem is that CapsLock is > hardcoded to work as a Shift on keys and you can't make it work > differently for normal letter keys and for the upper row of keys.
I think the fallacy in that reasoning is the idea that the key labeled CapsLock has to be bound to the kernel function named capslock.
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