benson@odi.COM (08/23/89)
I've got some Sun type 4 keyboards. As previously reported, SunOS 4.0.3 does not return type 4 for as type 4 board, it returns type 3. As an interim kludge, I made sunKbd.c look for a file in the root (sun-kbd-4), and if it finds it it sets up for a type 4 keyboard. The type 4 support in the X1r3 code seems wrong to me. I made Compose be Multi-Key, Alt Graph be Mode Switch, Pause Payse, PrSc Print, Scroll/Lock/Break Break, and Num Lock Num lock. I set up the Alt key (which is on the left) as Alt_L. I made it default to being Mod2. that seems much more useful to me than Break, which nothing uses. I would be happy to supply the modified versions of sunKbd and sunKeyMap. Now, I have a question. Should the server support NumLock? The keypad is set up to do function keys unshifted and numbers / operations shifted. I presume that the natural semantics of NumLock would be to reverse that effect. Have the designers considered this possibility? Any advice appreciated. benson