timbomb@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Tim Mansfield) (09/05/90)
On an Apollo keyboard there's a whole bunch of mystery keys, which don't have any clear mapping to entries in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h. Does anyone know if you can access these keys from X and if so what their names are??? The ones I can't work out are: Pop Ins/Mark Line Del Char Del Cut/Copy Undo/Paste Move/Grow |<- Shell/Cmd ->| Next Wndw Again Read Save/Edit Abort/Exit Help/Hold <left page, the left arrow in a box thingy> <right page> Help, Tim
timbomb@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (trojan) (09/07/90)
Thanks to everyone who responded, the answer appears to be: run xev and press the keys in the xev window. Well, I've done that and the bad news appears to be that none of the keys I asked about ever get heard by X. Only the four arrow keys, the standard keyboard, the ten function keys and the numeric keypad seem to generate events. Sigh... Thanks, Tim
glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) (09/07/90)
In article <4803@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> timbomb@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (trojan) writes: > Thanks to everyone who responded, the answer appears to be: > run xev and press the keys in the xev window. > > Well, I've done that and the bad news appears to be that none of the keys > I asked about ever get heard by X. Only the four arrow keys, the standard > keyboard, the ten function keys and the numeric keypad seem to generate > events. > > Sigh... > Thanks, > Tim Don't be so glum, pardner! The Apollo X server can be configured to "exclude" certain keys from being recognized. This is so that only the DM sees them. In my /etc/rc, Xapollo is started with a command like: /etc/Xapollo -K /usr/X11/lib/keyboard/keyboard.config -D1 s+r- The keyboard.config file mostly contains comments and lines of the form: exclude UpBox If you comment out the appropriate lines, X will get the events you want. BTW, RTFM :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn P. Parker Bitstream, Inc. uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street glenn@bitstream.com Cambridge, MA 02142-1270
weber_w@apollo.HP.COM (Walt Weber) (09/07/90)
In article <4803@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, timbomb@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (trojan) writes: |> |> Thanks to everyone who responded, the answer appears to be: |> run xev and press the keys in the xev window. |> |> Well, I've done that and the bad news appears to be that none of the keys |> I asked about ever get heard by X. Only the four arrow keys, the standard |> keyboard, the ten function keys and the numeric keypad seem to generate events. |> Tim - In the directory /usr/X11/lib/keyboard is a file "keyboard.config" which controls which physical keys will be seen by X and which ones will be seen only by the Display Manager. See the online manpage for "Xapollo" under the "-K" option, or refer to the manual "Using the X Window System on Apollo Workstations", order number 012513-A02. ...walt... Walt Weber Hewlett Packard Response Center 508-256-6600x8315 Chelmsford, MA, USA "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it" -George Bernard Shaw
vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta) (09/08/90)
In article <4793@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> timbomb@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes: >On an Apollo keyboard there's a whole bunch of mystery keys, which don't >have any clear mapping to entries in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h. > >Does anyone know if you can access these keys from X and if so what their >names are??? Look in /usr/include/X11/ap_keysym.h. John Vasta Hewlett-Packard Apollo Systems Division vasta@apollo.hp.com M.S. CHA-01-LT (508) 256-6600 x5978 300 Apollo Drive, Chelmsford, MA 01824 UUCP: {decwrl!decvax, mit-eddie, attunix}!apollo!vasta