[haiku-development] Re: AltGr Key, key_map, and the US-International Keyboard

  • From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:27:05 -0400

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My K/B has left and right Ctrl, Alt, and 'Windows' keys.
> I set up a slightly custom map a long time ago, where I
> replaced the right 'Ctl' in "American" with 'Opt' (for reasons
> I won't bother with.).
> So i have two 'Cmd's and two 'Opts' but one 'Ctl'.  Whatever I do
> now with left or right button dragging, I can't *copy* any key role
> to get the standard "American" back. (Which does have two of
> everything)  I can only swap keys!
>
> This has to be a bug in Keymap, no?

Once you go custom there is no going back. Whether or not that is a
bug is a matter of debate. Keymap could detect if your map is byte for
byte the same as an existing map and if so set you to that map. Not
sure if it is worth it or not.

John Scipione

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