Mat Booth wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel
<ankit(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> What's the expected results of Left_Shift + Right_Shift + Any Key?
>
> I have tried Left_Shift + Right_Shift + each individual key combination of
> QWERTY keyboard in text editor (e.g. gedit) and got the following results:
>
> ~!@#$%^&*()_+
> QWERUIOP|
> ASDFGHJKL:"
> BN?
>
> If you notice, there are many English alphabets not being displayed. e.g.
> Left_Shift + Right_Shift + t = <nothing> , same for y, z, x, c, v and m
> keys.
>
> Is this a correct behavior?
>
Curiously, you can observe the same behaviour in Windows. Is this a
limitation of the keyboards themselves, perhaps?
Indeed, "showkey -s" does not show any scan codes being emitted for some
keys while both the left and right shift keys are held down. I see this
behavior for qwerty7890-= keys with my keyboard.
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