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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Sun5PCOW keyboard remapping
- Message-ID: <15476@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 03:38:34 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.203208.18623@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- > unfortunately, this only works with the Sun5PC (MIT layout) keyboard
-
- "MIT layout"? Eh?
-
- >OpenWindows seems to use Sun5PCOW (OpenWindows layout) instead.
-
- "OpenWindows layout"? Eh?
-
- I'm not aware of any naming schemes for Sun Type 5 keyboard hardware
- that refers to things that sound like the sources of X11 releases, such
- as "MIT" and "OpenWindows".
-
- >In this case,
- >the CapsLock key becomes a Control *toggle*, and the Control key becomes
- >a regular shift. The "latching" effect stays with the CapsLock key.
-
- This sounds very suspiciously as if you are, in fact, referring to the
- supplier of your X11 software - i.e., the MIT server can cope with the
- two keys in question being switched, and knows that the key with the
- Lock modifier should be a toggling key, while the OW server appears to
- think that the key with a given keystation number should be a toggling
- key, no matter what modifiers are associated with it.
-
- That is, in fact, the case, according to what I remember somebody from
- Sun saying in some newsgroup. I think they also said that it'd be fixed
- in some future OW release, but I don't think they mentioned any way of
- convincing current OW releases to cope with a different key getting the
- Lock modifier.
-
- A potential fix, if you can get the money to spend or can convince Sun
- to take your keyboard back, *is*, in fact, to get a keyboard with a
- different layout; it sounds as if you have a "PC layout" Type 5, but
- want a "UNIX layout" type 5. (No, the "PC layout" Type 5 isn't the
- "OpenWindows layout" Type 5, and the "UNIX layout" Type 5 isn't the
- "MIT layout" Type 5, unless some complete nitwit at Sun labelled
- them in that fashion, in which case those labels should simply be
- ignored as being the products of a nitwit.)
-
- See if you can get Sun to let you swap your PC-layout keyboard for a
- UNIX-layout one.
-