From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 23 14:38:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA17898 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 May 1995 14:38:43 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA17892 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 14:38:42 -0700 Received: from huey.x.org by expo.x.org id AA27241; Tue, 23 May 95 17:38:09 -0400 Received: by huey.x.org id AA22258; Tue, 23 May 1995 17:37:58 -0400 Message-Id: <9505232137.AA22258@huey.x.org> To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: I need Easyacsess-like tools on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 23 May 1995 14:25:58 MDT. <9505232025.AA26115@cs.weber.edu> Organization: X Consortium Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 17:37:58 EDT From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > operation (especially, locking modifier keys). Moreover, a few > > handicapped people in our campus uses FreeBSD for their studies. They > > and I are so happy if FreeBSD and/or XFree86 supports such > > accessibility features. > > > Windows 95 has a keyboard facility where if you hold down a modifier > key for one minute, it brings up a dialog asking if you want to go into > a mode where the modifier keys are latched on. The problem with making > this a generic facility in FreeBSD is that it requires the ability to > pop up a dialog, so it would be mode dependent. The X facility is also > difficult because it requires modification of the keyboard driver, and > this is not common code -- it would have to be done for each X DDX layer, > like the frame output. > These features, and more, are part of the XKB extension to X11. XKB is work-in-progress in X11R6 and will be a full-fledged X Consortium standard for the next release of X11. Unfortunately only the Sun and OMRON servers had XKB support enabled in R6; however it should not be too difficult to enable it in the XFree86 servers. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY