Re: key themes (cont.)

[Gianluca Montecchi <gm518464 silab dsi unimi it>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Elliot Lee wrote:

> 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?


Well, I start to hack it. I first must (and want) understand very well how
it work and after make the port.


bye

Gianluca

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