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From: jgm@fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu (John G. Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Alternate as META key?
Summary: as promised
Message-ID: <8055@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 16:11:32 GMT
References: <7953@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In article <7953@pt.cs.cmu.edu> I wrote:
>If I get a keyDown event with the NX_ALTERNATEMASK, I want to find the
>charCode that the event would have had if the event didn't have
>NX_ALTERNATEMASK.

The solution was to open /dev/evs0 and read the keyboard mapping with
the EVSIOCKM ioctl.  When I get a keyboard event with NX_ALTERNATEMASK
set, I look up the charCode for the keyCode myself.  Further details
upon request.

This won't work perfectly if the display server is running on a
different machine with a different keyboard, but it's better than
nothing.

Thanks to ramsdell@linus.mitre.org for sending me a sample program
which reads the keyboard map.




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