I lose characters because keycode of Fn is same than DEL
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Jul 1 15:14:00 GMT 2011
On 01/07/2011 12:21, Phil Betts wrote:
> On 30 June 2011 17:51, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> I've fixed the mapping for this (undocumented) virtual key code, so hopefully
>> this works correctly now. I've uploaded a snapshot at [1]
>>
>> I can't test this as the keyboards I have with an Fn key don't generate a
>> separate keypress for that, apparently Lenovo laptops are special in this
>> regard :-), so please let me know if this works.
>>
>> [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20110630-git-e89b8ba1b44331d1.exe.bz2
>
> Thanks Jon, that works a treat.
>
> The new output for the Fn key is:
> [ 89311.789] winTranslateKey: wParam 000000ff lParam 01630001
> [ 89311.789] winSendKeyEvent: dwKey: 85, fDown: 1, nEvents 2
> [ 89311.789] winTranslateKey: wParam 000000ff lParam c1630001
> [ 89311.789] winSendKeyEvent: dwKey: 85, fDown: 0, nEvents 2
>
> The corresponding output in xev is now:
>
> KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
> root 0x101, subw 0x0, time 89443079, (86,83), root:(202,215),
> state 0x0, keycode 93 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> XFilterEvent returns: False
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
> root 0x101, subw 0x0, time 89443079, (86,83), root:(202,215),
> state 0x0, keycode 93 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> XFilterEvent returns: False
Thanks.
I was aiming to generate an unused keycode, though, so I'm not sure I've
picked a good one.
Can I see the output of 'setxkbmap -print' as well, please?
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Jon TURNEY
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