Re: keypad assignments

[Thomas Wolff <towo at computer dot org>]

> Thomas,
> 
> I believe I have fixed the problem.  What program do you use for 
> displaying the keycodes so I can test the fix before sending in the patch?
Hi Paul,
xev is the program for testing, thanks.
Thomas

> 
> 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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