Thread: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
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delaroca is offline delaroca
2010-01-29 , 18:22
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#383
Originally Posted by Addison View Post
One feature that xbindkeys provides that xmodmap doesn't offer is to set a combination key press function.

There should be no reason to edit the rx-51 file.
Basically, xmodmap binds single keys to single keys... while xbindkeys binds key-sequences to actions.

For programming foreign characters and additional symbols, xmodmap should suffice. But the X-Server interface that xmodmap uses is broken in Fremantle.

Xbindkeys, as I understand it, can't deliver single keys... it delivers commands that are followed by CR. To program delivery of single / multiple keys with Xbindkeys one would need to supplement it with the Xmacroplay utility. Given the shortage of free keys in the N900 keyboard, I suppose mimicking something like a "compose key" with xbindkeys and xmacroplay ought to be feasible.

--denis