key themes (cont.)

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, J. Patrick Narkinsky wrote:

> >     Stephan> How about key-themes ? e.g. emacs-key-theme ?
> > That's a very interesting idea!  Can someone develop it?
> 
> Why not just an easy frontend to do what xmodmap does?  X already has a
> concept of "keymappings" which allows for a given key to be mapped to a
> symbolic entity.  E.g., Backspace doesn't work in Netscape by default
> under linux because netscape expects backspace to mapped to the
> "Backspace" keysym; under Linux, it is mapped to the "Delete" keysym.
> 
> It should be easy enough to write a utility that would load up a set of
> keysyms when gnome was started.

A gtk port of xkeycaps is already on the TODO list. Any takers?

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