[slang-users] Keyboard modifiers

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:26:19AM -0400, John E. Davis wrote:

>    It depends upon the terminal and OS. If using the linux console, an
>    ioctl exists that gives the *current* shift state. However, that is
>    not very robust since it gives the *current* shift state and not
>    the shift state at the time when the key that is currently being
>    processed was pressed.
After gathering up on the mess of Linux keyboard stuff via various
documents and the Midnight Commander source, I found there is no other
way than using the ioctl for Linux VTs and XQueryPointer for X.

  Thanks for the info, John!

    Leslie

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