Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] another feature

[Steffen S. <s.s...@ph...>]

Dominik Kubla wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:35:35AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > > Another desirable feature to add to the web page is per VC keymaps.  i
> > > remember chaning my keymap for dosemu, and screwing over some of my other
> > > apps on other VC's because of it.
> >
> > I though about that. The question is should this be per keyboard or per
> > VC. I really need to look at the solaris driver for /dev/kbd. I think they
> 
> Per VC definitely!  We need per VC keymaps and charsets (Yuk!) for true
> DEC VT compatibility if we ever want to go higher than vt102.  From vt220
> on there are "user-defined keys" and "downloadable charsets".  You wouldn't
> want an application on tty1 to redefine the keymap and charset for ttyX.
> There are even security implications here!

These are like user-defined function keys? E.g. fixed set of
keys but you can define the characters they send on press/release?
Could you give some more details on that?
 

			Steffen

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