[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe & Tab

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So qwerty12 compiled a patched xev, I grabbed keycodes and I spent a
>> couple hours trying to convince the device that it'd be a really  
>> great
>> idea for shift-fn-b to send a pipe, for fn-right arrow to send tab,
>> and a dozen other shifted and unshifted combinations.
>
> FWIW, I think selecting those chars from touch screen (fn + sym) isn't
> all that bad - probably easier than shift + fn + something. fn + right
> would make sense though.

I should add, because fn+shift is essentially a single keypress.