Why has OSF introduced Keysyms into Motif 1.1?
there in Motif 1.0. Answer: ellis@osf.org wrote: Virtual Keysyms are meant to provide a consistent keyboard model for Motif applications running in a heterogeneous environment in which proprietary (i.e. vendor specific) non-Motif applications may also be running. First of all, for the sake of the rest of the readers, let’s explain why this is an issue: It would be lovely if Motif’s translation tables could just use the obvious keysyms predefined by X. For example, there are keysyms for XK_BackSpace, XK_Delete, XK_Left, XK_Right, etc.
