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author | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-01-15 21:23:25 +0100 |
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committer | marha <marha@users.sourceforge.net> | 2014-01-15 21:23:25 +0100 |
commit | 1b0fcca503ae9cf2d462b60770f96c794dfbb27a (patch) | |
tree | d08c81de02b94da202195d84c99e192bc24ae69e /xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/compat/README | |
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mesa xkeyboard-config xserver git update 15 jan 2014
xserver commit 2d2d49dab5c5718989de97d7227aac793479745e
xkeyboard-config commit 78af7aa79c6552924295644b911e45d07a0fcdad
mesa commit a05c596a00916ce6a9c9d35ff36cd1e401fddd43
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diff --git a/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/compat/README b/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/compat/README index 00d591e7b..3c5747bb8 100644 --- a/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/compat/README +++ b/xorg-server/xkeyboard-config/compat/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ The core protocol interpretation of keyboard modifiers does not include direct support for multiple keyboard groups, so XKB reports the effective keyboard -group to XKB-aware clients using some of reserved bits in the state field of -some core protocol events. This modified state field would not be interpreted +group to XKB-aware clients using some of the reserved bits in the state field +of some core protocol events. This modified state field would not be interpreted correctly by XKB-unaware clients, so XKB provides a group compatibility mapping which remaps the keyboard group into a core modifier mask that has similar effects, when possible. @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ XKB-unaware clients(*) work as well as possible: - The compatibility grab state which is the nearest core-protocol equivalent of the grab state. -Compatibility state are essentially the corresponding XKB states, but with -keyboard group possibly encoded as one or more modifiers. +Compatibility states are essentially the corresponding XKB states, but with +the keyboard group possibly encoded as one or more modifiers. Modifiers that correspond to each keyboard group are described in this group compatibility map. @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ group compatibility map. ---- (*) The implementation of XKB invisibly extends the X library to use the keyboard extension if it is present. That means, clients that use library or -toolkit routines to interpret keyboard events automatically use all of XKB -features; clients that directly interpret the state field of core protocol -events or the keymap direcly may be affected by some of the XKB differences. +toolkit routines to interpret keyboard events automatically use all of XKB's +features; clients that directly interpret the state field of core-protocol +events or the keymap directly may be affected by some of the XKB differences. Thus most clients can take all advantages without modification but it also means that XKB state can be reported to clients that have not explicitly requested the keyboard extension. |