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Re: numlock
- From: Cary Jamison <cary_jamison at symantec dot com>
- To: "List, Cygwin/X" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:34:12 -0700
- Subject: Re: numlock
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Alexander Gottwald" <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote in
message
news:<Pine.LNX.4.58.0404011653550.7199@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>...
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, J S wrote:
>
> > Ah, not the answer I was expecting! Are you pulling my leg or was that
a
> > serious answer?!
>
> This is a serious answer. Numlock is treated as modifier key just like
caps
> lock or control. pressing a key while numlock is on is just like
pressing
> ctrl + key.
>
I think perhaps the other part of this question is why some X11 servers on
other platforms don't treat numlock as a modifier but XFree86 does. Could
this be made configurable?
I think this has been discussed before, though, so perhaps a search of the
archives is in order...
Cary