From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 8:29: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ab-bg.net (ab-bg.net [212.56.11.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA27737B5BE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from v0rbiz@ab-bg.net) Received: (qmail 2469 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Feb 2000 16:25:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Feb 2000 16:25:21 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:25:21 +0200 (EET) From: Victor Ivanov To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: KDGKBSTATE and alt=meta Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi.. there is no shift-keys retrieval ioctl implemented in FreeBSD... why? the KDGKBSTATE ioctl returns just the lock-keys state. actualy it takes the flags int and masks it with the lock-keys bitmask. some applications need the shift-keys state (such as mcedit and the tvision library) and i have added another ioctl to provide it (i could use the same ioctl but... nevermind :). is there a problem adding something like 'options KBD_SHIFTSTATES' to the configuration scripts or somthing... :) the second thing is ALT = META... AT keyboards don't have meta keys and alt for meta is fine... ..thanks :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message