Re: some keys not seen in xev(1) when pressed in combination with both Alt_L and Alt_R

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 05:09:27PM +0100, Michai Ramakers wrote:
> 
> Thank you, that made things very clear. Following that spec, it is
> also true that 4-key combinations (ShiftL + AltL + CtrlL + letterkey
> for instance) are not guaranteed to work (consistently) accross
> keyboards either, is that right?
> 

If you get the right keyboard you may be able to do what you want.  I
think that a high end "gamer" keyboard that advertises "n-key rollover"
would.  I have one of these keyboards:

http://shop.daskeyboard.com/collections/frontpage/products/das-keyboard-professional-model-s

I tried holding both alt keys down and couldn't find a key that did not
come up.  I went so far to hold both alt and both ctrl keys down and
still could get characters out (the ones I could reach).  My keyboard is
plugged into a ps/2 port so according to the marketing can support any
number of keys keld down... seems to work too.

I tried the same on my laptop keyboard and found the same thing you did,
some keys worked others did not.

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