Re: setting gdk display

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 21:08, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:17, Paul Davis wrote:
> > the specific problem with the relationship between keyboards and X
> > modifiers is that X imposes no policy on bindings. its become "normal"
> > for Alt to be bound to mod1, but there is no requirement that this be
> > true, let alone that Alt_L and Alt_R should necessarily be the same
> > modifier. 
> 
> The basic idea is to have applications refer to hyper and super, and
> GTK+ deals with the whole which-modifier-bit-is-that issue. See 
> libegg/libegg/treeviewutils/eggaccelerators.h for example (various bits
> of GNOME already use this code - I'm not sure why it isn't in 2.3.0 in
> fact, probably just slipped through the cracks).

I don't want to do it directly like that ... I think we can add virtual
modifiers to GdkModifierType and make it basically invisible that 
GDK_SUPER_MASK is different than GDK_CONTROL_MASK.

Regards,
						Owen