[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] hardware keys -- proposal for alternate XKeys

[From: Kemal Hadimli]

Hey,

with the IT2006  (great beta btw!) getting ready, any hope we could
get this implemented?
imho this is important for thin client functionality, especially for
fullscreen terminal apps (rdesktop/vncviewer)

On 3/27/06, Florian Boor <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kemal Hadimli wrote:
> > Move the hardware keys to unused XKey values. This way, with the F
> > keys free, apps (mostly the ones that are supposed to be used with
> > bluetooth keyboards, like vncviewer/rdesktop) can use them freely.
>
> basically a good idea. We try to do this on other platforms for the special keys
> too, but sometimes you can run into trouble with this. (e.g. some versions of
> kdrive are missing some key definitions. It might be worth to think about using
> the higher function keys (>F12) for this purpose. In this case it would be just
> a matter of shipping an Xmodmap file matching your device.

-- 
Kemal