| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
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I have a customer who is trying to use keysyms generated by
the keyboard with a keyboard type other than North American
( she is changing the keyboard type under customize keyboard in
the session manager). This works fine for all keyboard types other
than Austrian German. I have written a short program to verify this.
My question is: should this work? Clearly, the DECwindows Users
Guide ( version 2.2 of ULTRIX) indicates that the use of the
keyboard type is to match the keyboard model that you have. There is
no implication that using a different keyboard type will guarantee
different keysyms ( my guess is that the session manager does an
XChangeKeyboardMapping for keyboard keycodes to map to the new
keysyms).
Should this use of the keyboard type work (be supported) or did
she just get lucky with all of the other languages?
Thanks,
Doug
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To answer my own question.....
The customer looked into the problem some more... she was expecting
keysyms to match figure B-9 of the DECwindows Desktop Applications
Guide. She took the keyboard to someone how knows French/German.
The keyboard pictured in B-9 is French.... nearly the exact same
keyboard as pictured on B-16 (the Belgian/French keyboard).
She obtained an Austrian/German keyboard, and the keyboard and
keysyms match. So, changing keyboard types does remap keysyms correctly
for all languages.
doug
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