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- From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
- Subject: Re: New WMGR
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.223814.20230@colnet.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Little to None
- References: <Bxnx1n.859@zero.com> <953@hawkeye.hawkeye.com> <1992Nov17.002652.10608@blilly.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:38:14 GMT
- Lines: 48
-
- >wmgr.sl 1.7 differs from 1.8 in its use of the Suspend, Resume,
- >Shift-Suspend and Shift-Resume keys:
- >
- >Key 1.7 1.8
- >Suspend Window menu Window menu
- >Resume switch to previous window Window menu
- >Shift-Suspend Window menu switch to previous window
- >Shift-Resume switch to next window switch to next window
- >
- >After 4 years of training, it's difficult to retrain one's
- >fingers :-(. But not having to contend with the memory leak
-
- I've seen several people complain about the workings of the Rsume/Suspd
- keys not being to their liking for various flavors of the window manager.
- It is easy enough to change the key translations -- here is what I use:
- This file is executed from /etc/rc during a boot. (I think kfeature and
- keyfix are available from osu-cis.)
- ===============================================================================
- #
- # set up features of default 3.51m keyboard driver
- #
- /etc/kfeature capctrl meta # fastrep saveub metermaid
-
- #
- # other keyboard mapping changes:
- #
- #keyfix scan_code norm shift ctrl flags (REPT=1 CAPLCK=2 NUMLCK=4 ILLK=-1)
- #
-
- # Rsume key -> reverse action of Rsume and SHIFT-Rsume
- keyfix 0x1f 0xff0b 0xff0c 0xff0c 0
-
- # Suspd key -> reverse action of Suspd and SHIFT-Suspd
- keyfix 0x1e 0xff09 0xff0a 0xff0a 0
-
- # escape key -> make control-escape == ESCAPE
- #keyfix 0x1b 0x001b 0x007f 0x001b 1
-
- # spacebar -> make control-space == ^@ (NULL)
- #keyfix 0x20 0x0020 0x0020 0x0000 1
-
- # RESET/BREAK -> make key == DELETE DELETE 0xff
- keyfix 0x25 0x007f 0x007f 0x00ff 1
-
- (etc)
- --
- Rob Stampfli rob@colnet.cmhnet.org The neat thing about standards:
- 614-864-9377 HAM RADIO: kd8wk@n8jyv.oh There are so many to choose from.
-