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From: hugh@hoptoad.uucp (Hugh Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: X side of X/NeWS does not see /Synthetic keyboard events
Keywords: XNeWS chord-keyboard
Message-ID: <16956@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Apr 91 12:22:09 GMT
Organization: Grasshopper Group / Project Xanadu
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  I am working on a new keyboard for Sun's, its a chording keyboard (one
hand, but it comes with both left and right hand keyboards so you can go
really fast).  The current version plugs into a serial port, and I have
taken it's output and fed it into XNeWS.
  My problem is that when I generate a keyboard event via a NeWS event,
the X side of XNeWS does not see the event.  The events I generate are
exactly the same as the ones that are generated by the server except for
the undcoumented /Synthetic key/value which is readonly anyway.
  It seems silly for my client to sell keyboards that work for only some
of the windows on the screen!  So if anyone out there knows how to fix
this the right way please enlighten us all.

                ||ugh Daniel
hugh@toad.com                   Grasshopper  Group,   +1 415/668-5998
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