I was not aware of the other way of doing it when I wrote the patch :P

-Jaime Fournier
ober@NetBSD.org

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, der Mouse wrote:

> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
> From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
> To: tech-kern@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: CONTROL-ALT-Fn
> 
>> I wrote a patch a while back to keep from having to use more than alt-fn.
>
>>          case KS_Cmd2:
>>                  update_modifier(sc->id, *type, 0, MOD_COMMAND2);
>> +               update_modifier(sc->id, *type, 0, MOD_COMMAND1);
>>                  break;
>
> Why not just remove Cmd2 from your alt key(s) and replace it with Cmd?
> Perhaps your tradeoffs are different, but, for this task, I'd certainly
> rather change my keymapping at boot time than patch the kernel.
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