Re: a few notes on gncal

[Michael Poole <poole+ andrew cmu edu>]

famrom@ran.es (Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero) writes:

> Dunno how Mac and Paynix keyboards work... but the Windoze keys, IMO, are
> just "soldered wires" to two keys. Winlogo is Ctrl-Esc and Menu is
> Shift-F10. So I think this two (three) keys are stupid, and useless. They
> will cause problems, IMHO. I have tested the combos in normal and windoze
> keyboards, in both work, dunno if they use different key codes that windoze
> reads, or there is no new keycodes (so keyboard generates fake key presses
> and windoze detects the combo).

	Are you sure?  Linux on my machine seems pretty sure that the windows
and menu keys on my keyboard have their own scan codes, which is enough to
make them distinct keys from ctrl-esc and shift-f10.  I know that pressing
"Ctrl+Windows+F1" is enough to switch from vt9 running X to vt1 in textmode
on my box, but Ctrl+Esc+F1 doesn't do any such thing (and this is with at
generic $25 keyboard).

	That seems to demonstrate that expecting the extra keys to actually
ACT like extra keys is very reasonable, and that it won't cause problems
except where people don't have the extra keys.