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Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards
From: |
Daniel P . Berrangé |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:06:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 03:44:21PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:36:14AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I've been reading up here:
> > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-1.html
> >
> > And man, what a mess keyboards are! Worse than floppy controllers.
> > According to that site, the scan code for \ should be 0x2b, so why does
> > xev say the keycode is 51? Is keycode something else entirely from scan
> > codes and keysyms? If so how can I see the scan code?
>
> 0x2b is 43 in hex.
>
> xev reports the Xorg scancode, which is the same as the XT/AT-set1
> scancodes, with an offset of 8 added
>
> IOW, 51 from xev does actually match 0x2b from XT scancode set
Opps, slight mistake there. On *old* Xorg using the 'kbd' driver it
would correspond to XT/AT-set1 scancodes. On *new* Xorg using the 'evdev'
driver it would correspond to Linux keycodes.
Fortunately in this particular case the Linux keycode is the same as
the XT scancode so the conversion I illustrate was still correct :-)
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/17
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/08/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Christian Ehrhardt, 2018/08/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Phillip Susi, 2018/08/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Pipe key broken on US keyboards, Christian Ehrhardt, 2018/08/20