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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: ctrlLock, metaLock ?
Message-ID: <3241@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 19:55:11 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <8902171035.AA13382@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> mansfiel@scrsu1.sdr.slb.COM (Niall Mansfield) writes:
>It would be useful (for diabled people, and others who need to work
>one-handed) to have metaLock and ctrlLock.  How would you do this in X -- I
>can't see any 'lock'-style specifications available in xmodmap or wherever?

To do similar latching of command buttons, we wrote a procedure that
keeps track of the state; once the key is pressed, it is set ON until
pressed again (via a state variable). You would probably want to give
some visual feedback, like a [Ctrl LOCK] label appearing on the screen
when the key is "locked".

-Miles