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From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Inventing A Shift Key
Message-ID: <1989Sep11.193907.10094@odi.com>
Date: 11 Sep 89 19:39:07 GMT
Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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This message is looking for an answer from one of the designers of the
dix / ddx stuff, or someone who knows a lot about it.

Sun's latest keyboard has a key marked "Num Lock." as far as I know,
there is no kernel support for treating it as a shift lock key.
I have been stumped trying to see if the X11R3 server code already
includes some generic support for defining a key that locks
some number of keycodes into their shifted keysym. For example,
would I need a third column in the mapping table? And how would
I specify that num-lock shoved things into the third column?

thanks in advance.

benson

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Benson I. Margulies