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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What do those keys mean???
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Date: 5 Sep 90 17:48:01 GMT
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In article <4793@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, timbomb@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Tim
Mansfield) writes:
|> On an Apollo keyboard there's a whole bunch of mystery keys, which don't
|> have any clear mapping to entries in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h.

The mapping of special keys to keysyms is largely implementation
dependent.  One easy way to see what they are in your implementation is
to just press them, get the keycode from the key press event, and do a
XLookupString or XKeycodeToKeysym on the key code.  The xev program in
the MIT distribution does this, printing out the keysym name.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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