Re: keyboard map
- From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:49:26 -0800 (PST)
--- On Sun, 1/17/10, flash <flash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not a bad idea. Shall we poll the keyboards out there
> amongst us?
>
> That is exactly what I did for my Cherry keyboard.
> Keycode.exe returned
> no code for some keys (such as print-screen), and returned
> numbers in
> the 300 range which made no sense to me or to Xy for some
> keys (for
> example, 325 for num-lock) but enough keys were correctly
> identified to
> allow me to modify my kbd file to suit my needs.
>
Once upon a time, the key scancodes were pretty standardized
and unchanging -- at least for most desktop systems. The
vast menagerie of laptops changed all that (or so it seems
to me), and by this point it's anyone's guess.
Jordan
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