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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Will You Buy an Apple iPad? Post 302438396 by Scott on Monday 19th of July 2010 02:06:42 PM
Old 07-19-2010
Yeah. I think that sums it up. For serious typing a real keyboard is a must, for anything else the virtual one is fine.

If the virtual one had numbers and more control keys on the default layout, a real keyboard would perhaps be less necessary yet.

As to "Jailbreaking", I'll probably never do it, but I can fully understand why people do.

Congrats on winning an iPad! The tax in MD can't be that bad if you paid only ~$28!



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For serious typing a real keyboard is a must, for anything else the virtual one is fine.
After using the device for a while, I can say: Complete tosh!

The lack of arrow keys is really starting to annoy me.

And it's impossible to edit a post here if it doesn't fit completely in the edit box (there's no way to scroll). The only option is to copy the text to Pages, or some editor, and edit it there, then copy it back. What a complete drag.

edit: To the above paragraph... complete tosh! You can use gestures to scroll Smilie Live and learn!

Get a grip, Jobs!

The iPad, and Why the Original Mac Didn't Have Arrow Keys GeekFun

Last edited by Scott; 01-06-2011 at 04:17 PM..
 
XkbVirtualModsToReal(3) 					   XKB FUNCTIONS					   XkbVirtualModsToReal(3)

NAME
XkbVirtualModsToReal - Determines the mapping of virtual modifiers to core X protocol modifiers SYNOPSIS
Bool XkbVirtualModsToReal ( xkb, virtual_mask, mask_rtrn ) XkbDescPtr xkb ; unsigned int virtual_mask ; unsigned int * mask_rtrn ; ARGUMENTS
- xkb keyboard description for input device - virtual_mask virtual modifier mask to translate - mask_rtrn backfilled with real modifiers DESCRIPTION
Xkb maintains a virtual modifier mapping, which lists the virtual modifiers associated with, or bound to, each key. The real modifiers bound to a virtual modifier always include all of the modifiers bound to any of the keys that specify that virtual modifier in their vir- tual modifier mapping. The server.vmodmap array indicates which virtual modifiers are bound to each key; each entry is a bitmask for the virtual modifier bits. The server.vmodmap array is indexed by keycode. The vmodmap and vmods members of the server map are the "master" virtual modifier definitions. Xkb automatically propagates any changes to these fields to all other fields that use virtual modifier mappings. For example, if Mod3 is bound to the Num_Lock key by the core protocol modifier mapping, and the NumLock virtual modifier is bound to they Num_Lock key by the virtual modifier mapping, Mod3 is added to the set of modifiers associated with NumLock. The virtual modifier mapping is normally updated whenever actions are automatically applied to symbols and few applications should need to change the virtual modifier mapping explicitly. Use XkbGetMap to get the virtual modifiers from the server or use XkbGetVirtualMods to update a local copy of the virtual modifiers bind- ings from the server. To set the binding of a virtual modifier to a real modifier, use XkbGetVirtualMods If the keyboard description defined by xkb includes bindings for virtual modifiers, XkbVirtualModsToReal uses those bindings to determine the set of real modifiers that correspond to the set of virtual modifiers specified in virtual_mask. The virtual_mask parameter is a mask specifying the virtual modifiers to translate; the i-th bit (0 relative) of the mask represents the i-th virtual modifier. If mask_rtrn is non-NULL, XkbVirtualModsToReal backfills it with the resulting real modifier mask. If the keyboard description in xkb does not include vir- tual modifier bindings, XkbVirtualModsToReal returns False; otherwise, it returns True. RETURN VALUES
True The XkbVirtualModsToReal function returns True if the keyboard description in xkb does include virtual modifier bindings. False The XkbVirtualModsToReal function returns False if the keyboard description in xkb does not include virtual modifier bind- ings. SEE ALSO
XkbGetMap(3), XkbGetVirtualMods(3) NOTES
It is possible for a local (client-side) keyboard description (the xkb parameter) to not contain any virtual modifier information (simply because the client has not requested it) while the server's corresponding definition may contain virtual modifier information. X Version 11 libX11 1.2.1 XkbVirtualModsToReal(3)
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