Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mika Lindman wrote:
>
> > In Cygwin arrow keys and delete work fine, but in Cygwin/X I just get
> > 2A, 2B etc. codes when pressing these keys. When I start X Server ( xwin
> > -indirect <ip> ), arrow keys work in "shifted mode", meaning that when I
> > move with arrow keys in app (OOo or whatever), it selects text at the
> > same time.
>
> Is NumLock activated?

iirc, NumLock would simply prevent the key from being recognized.

The description above hints that the application doesn't expect to
see the "2" which is sent to denote that the shift-key is pressed.

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