Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/12475: ctrl,shift,alt keys can be used as alock w/o other functionality loss Message-ID: <199907020330.UAA27735@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/12475; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: gritsaj@nusun.jinr.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: kern/12475: ctrl,shift,alt keys can be used as alock w/o other functionality loss Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:28:21 +0900 >>Number: 12475 >>Category: kern >>Synopsis: ctrl,shift,alt keys can be used as alock w/o other functional >ity loss [...] >>Description: > > 'lctrl', 'rctrl', 'lshift', 'rshift', 'lalt', 'ralt' keys can be used > as 'alock' key simultaneously with their "shift" purposes. 'alock' will > be toggled at such key releasing, if between pressing and releasing > one was not any keyboard actions (include the key autorepeat). In > all other cases these keys preserve their usual functionality. > For distinguish such keys from ones with old behaviour new keymap > names 'lctrla', 'rctrla', 'lshifta', 'rshifta', 'lalta', 'ralta' are > introduced. Also examples of russian keymaps (as patches for current > ones), which use 'rctrla', are included. The following files Do you mean that you want to have the AltLock functionality on your keyboard but do not want to dedicate a key to `alock'? Is it common in the Russian keyboard (or in any other keyboards) that AltLock is implemented this way? Or, is it just your preferred way? I will have a look at your patch. I might make minor modification to your patch as I don't like a static variable in kbd.c... Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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