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Meta Key

Posted Apr 17, 2009 12:31 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Meta Key by daniels
Parent article: Shortening the rope

There are eight modifier flags, three of which have permanent meaning (shift, control, and
capslock). So really those are the only ones which are guaranteed to exist on every X server.

Meta, Alt, Hyper, Super, etc. can be mapped to any of the other five if those keysyms (or left or
right vaiants) exist.

My experience is that this stuff isn't very well documented and certain applications interpret things
a little differently.


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