Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Derek Homeier wrote:
> > BTW, what is the great advantage of Xkb over just using the console
> > keymaps anyway? Personally, I've disabled Xkb practically since i switched
> > from Xpmac to XfreeFBDev, to have only one keymap to struggle with, and
> > this has always been working well -- except for a few problems with
> > the Mod keys which I solved with Xmodmap mainly due to laziness...
>
> Xkb has nice features like disabling caps lock and probably plenty of other
> stuff I don't know about...
And it knows the full geometry of the keyboard (position and size of the keys),
which is good for computer games.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
P.S. My favorite computer game is gcc. It doesn't use XKB :-)
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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