On 21/11/2007, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
> OTOH, the second wish of being consistent with X11 programs on other
> machines can only very incompletely be satisfied, because those other
> machines usually have a lot more keys then Apple keyboards.
Personally I feel that this is only half-true, and the reason is how
the "Command" key has to be handled in Apple's X.
Functionally, Mode_switch does the same thing as Option and
Meta ("Alt") does the same thing as Command so theoretically the
Mac should have enough keys, and if mapped this way the
keys IMHO corresponds even quite well to the rest of OS X.
Alt is IMHO a fairly foreign key itself as far as X goes, a holdover
from the Windows world I might say, and its non-existence
really should not affect any X program. But it does. So sad.
This is the Linux world's fault, not us =P
I hope I'm awake enough when I wrote this.
--
cheers,
-ambrose
Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die.
PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important)
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