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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: NumLock and similar keys
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Date: 13 Sep 89 18:09:50 GMT
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    So I find myself suggesting that
    just as I can xmodmap any old key to be Shift, I should further be
    able to specify that this mapping should have
    press-to-start/press-to-stop behavior. 

It isn't really a property of the mapping, it's a property of the "key".
In the same way that you might want to control whether individual keys
do or don't toggle, I might want to control whether groups of keys
do or don't "radio-button".  You can probably invent other behaviors
that you would like for keys or groups of keys.  They are plausible
things to do, but they are outside the scope of the current X protocol,
and not all servers may want to heed your request, depending on what
their physical hardware limitations are.  If you really want this,
you can go off and design and implement an X extension to do it, and
see if anyone is interested in the result.