From: "Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aleix@member.fsf.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ctrl:nocaps enables mark set?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:09:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b890d37d0809030709p58af55abmc07ac2e36c3d2967@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wu9498o.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 16:03, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have reviewed my email and capslock has keycode 66 and ctrl has
> > keycode 37 both producing Control_L.
>
> True.
>
> The problem is that there is also a feature of the X server that it
> maintains up/down state for certain keys because it is so common to
> check for chords with those keys. Specifically, the modifier keys.
> As Andreas points out, your keycode 66 is in the list of modifiers as
> BOTH a shiftlock key and a control key. You need to fix the modifier
> list, not the keysym definition, of the key corresponding to 66.
>
> In-hopes-of-avoiding-flame-from-Andreas-who-really-knows-his-stuff-ly y'rs
>
OK, got it now. Sorry, I get a bit lost when talking about modifiers,
keycodes, keysyms... :-(
Aleix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 15:23 ctrl:nocaps enables mark set? Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2008-09-02 16:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-09-02 16:19 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2008-09-02 18:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-09-02 19:47 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2008-09-03 12:55 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2008-09-03 14:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-03 14:09 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué [this message]
2008-09-02 16:18 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-02 16:22 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
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