Keyboard patch for Fn key

[mmirg]

This applies a patch written by Dirk Hohndel to convert the right alt key to a Fn key. This allows functions such as Pg Up to be mapped to right alt + up.

[brocktice]

I have already pulled this in locally and rebuilt, am going to test later today and then will merge. It might be nice to have a kernel config option for this so that it can be merged without permanently changing the behavior.

[mmirg]

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Fair enough. I'm also as of yet unconvinced that this is the best solution, at least one concern that I have is that it seems like people using non-English keyboard layouts may lose access to AltGr if Alt_R is forcibly mapped to Fn. There was a somewhat spirited discussion on Google+ between Dirk and Dimitry Torokhov about the merits of different approaches for handling the keyboard.

I reversed this patch on my machine and have gone back to fiddling with xmodmap to setup my keyboard as I like.

On 05/06/2013 11:29 AM, brocktice wrote:

I am going to test this later today and then will merge. It might be nice to have a kernel config option for this so that it can be merged without permanently changing the behavior.

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