Keyboard protocol #2

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Now in fact there are still reasons we need key codes that are different to the eventual text representation, e.g. for cursor movement and other special characters like function keys. Looking at the Xorg source code now, there's a relatively fixed notion of what a keyboard can actually do. I suspect that conceptually a somewhat backwards-compatible extension would be to have a new dedicated kind…

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