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0 pointsrockorager1y ago0 comments

Kitty keyboard protocol does indeed support modifier sides.

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No it doesn't, and the author rejected the proposal to add them

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/

Modifiers are encoded as a bit field with:

shift 0b1 (1) alt 0b10 (2) ctrl 0b100 (4) super 0b1000 (8) hyper 0b10000 (16) meta 0b100000 (32) caps_lock 0b1000000 (64) num_lock 0b10000000 (128)

aumerle1y ago

Yes modifiers are a state, not a key. The kitty keyboard protocol does indeed send events for left and right modifier key press/releas as you can easily see for yourself by running

kitten show-key -m kitty

in a kitty terminal and pressing the left and right modifier keys.

eviks1y ago

> Yes modifiers are a state, not a key

So why are you talking about a key then??? Kitty doesn't support left/right modifiers unlike proper keybinding handling apps, the left/right presses for non-modifier keys aren't relevant

How would you bind LeftAlt-A to something different from RightAlt-A in Kitty?

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eviks1y ago

No it doesn't, and the author rejected the proposal to add them

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/

Modifiers are encoded as a bit field with:

shift 0b1 (1) alt 0b10 (2) ctrl 0b100 (4) super 0b1000 (8) hyper 0b10000 (16) meta 0b100000 (32) caps_lock 0b1000000 (64) num_lock 0b10000000 (128)

aumerle1y ago

Yes modifiers are a state, not a key. The kitty keyboard protocol does indeed send events for left and right modifier key press/releas as you can easily see for yourself by running

kitten show-key -m kitty

in a kitty terminal and pressing the left and right modifier keys.

eviks1y ago

> Yes modifiers are a state, not a key

So why are you talking about a key then??? Kitty doesn't support left/right modifiers unlike proper keybinding handling apps, the left/right presses for non-modifier keys aren't relevant

How would you bind LeftAlt-A to something different from RightAlt-A in Kitty?

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