Re: keypad assignments

["SUN, Jian" <sunjian dot nku at gmail dot com>]

 I also notice a similar problem:
 Sometimes, my numpad LED gives the wrong status under cygwinX:
 When the light is ON, the numpad is off, vice versa.
 However, under windows, it works fine.

 Jason

 On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Paul Loewenstein
<paul.loewenstein@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> That may be my fault in fixing a problem with speech recognition and Cygwin. ÂI'll have a look at that part of the special case table and undo that change if that is responsible.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I've managed to re-activate my Cygwin/XFree (there had been this disabled keyboard problem with a non-cygwin XKEYSYMDB variable setting since some recent release...).
>>> So I discovered that, assumedly with that recent major revision, a keyboard handling deficiency has been introduced:
>>>
>>> The keys of the right keypad (aka "numeric keypad") do no longer emit the keysyms KP_Home, KP_Up etc as they used to do but just plainly Home, Up etc which are also the keysyms of the small keypad (aka "editing keypad"). This makes them indistinguishable for any application - even worse, this cannot be fixed by configuration since they even send the same keycodes!
>>>
>>> These are different keys - considering them as aliases is a waste of physical resources - and they must be distinguishable for an application.
>>> That means, they must have different keycodes and they should also have different keysyms by default - that's what the KP_ keysyms are designed for.
>>>
>>> Thanks and kind regards,
>>> Thomas
>>>
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