Hi Paul, On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 05:07:14PM +1300, Paul Collins wrote: > Apple keyboards have the Command keys (a.k.a. the Apple or "waffle" key) > in the positions normally occupied on PC keyboards by the Alt/AltGr keys, > and the Option or Alt keys in the position occupied by the so-called > Windows keys. Folks who have been using PC-type computers for too long > generally have insurmountable muscle memory in this regard. > > This patch adds a module parameter, defaulting to off, that swaps these keys. > > The same effect can also be achieved by changing the console and X > keymaps, but this approach does not scale. For example, I don't want to > have to learn how to reconfigure Wayland's keymaps when the future > arrives and we all start using it, and there may be applications I don't > know about that also read keyboard events directly. > We have a mechanism to alter in-kernel "scancode" to mapping from userspace by issuing EVIOCSKEYCODE ioctl and there are a few utilities written, in addition to HAL using it. So the best way I think is to simly add an optional HAL policy. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
