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Re: numlock

From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
To: "List, Cygwin/X" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:45:08 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Re: numlock
References: <OFBC2EAEAF.76CF0E96-ON87256E69.007663D5-87256E69.00767D24@symantec.com>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

Cary Jamison wrote:

> 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?

It's not the server which has problems but the clients. the clients should
be aware that num_lock is _not_ a normal modifier like control or shift.

This works for most clients but not for some rather old ones (twm and some
on ancient unices).

> I think this has been discussed before, though, so perhaps a search of the
> archives is in order...

You can disable the the numlock key with
xmodmap -e "remove mod2 = Num_Lock"

bye
    ago
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References:
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  - From: Cary Jamison

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