Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 10:37:24PM -0400, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> > Borislav Deianov <borislav@lix.polytechnique.fr> wrote:
> >
> > >Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying your idea is useless - I do think
> > >it makes sense for the console where there isn't an easy way to
> > >intercept keys. As for X, you'll be doing the world a better service
> > >if you teach the X server to give you keycodes for the funny keys and
> > >let you handle them from there.
> >
> > I couldn't put it better myself.
>
> But X has a 119 keycodes limit, iirc.
The X protocol has a 256 keycode limit, but can have multiple
keyboards, if you're really stuck anyway. What key a keycode
is assigned to can vary per keyboard you just need to make
certain the key gets an appropriate keycode name so it can
be mapped correctly.
Eric
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