Keywords: Xkeyboard.svg This is what happends between an X Window Server and a client when a key is pressed the X server starts with a keycode which may be stored as a modifier if this keycode is specified to be a modifier Regardless the keycode goes to the client together with the set of modifiers that are currently down The client can change the modifiers so that the key a acts like a Shift There is also a separate mapping for translating keycode+modifier into a keysym This mapping is stored in the server which however does not use it Clients usually retrieve this mapping for performing the translation 2006-01-11 own assumed Tizio X Window System |