Numlock Style 1022

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:33:06 -0000, Thomas privatesey staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Yesterday, the only Linux machine running X that I had was my laptop, which doesn't have a real numpad. I typed "Up" instead of KPUp for some reason, possibly because I was typing fast and trying to deal with many useful letters going away every time I pressed Shift+ScrollLock. Anyway, it's a different keysym, sure, but in many apps, KPUp and Up display identical behavior. I think either one would probably work for what the OP wanted. The real problem is the Shift modifier state.

This is definitely not what I see on either my desktop or laptop. I'm using the default US English keymap, no XKB options, and a generic 104-key PC keyboard for X keyboard settings. When both NumLock and Shift are down, and I press 8 on the numeric keypad, a KPUp keysym shows up according to xev.

Yes, but that won't help the OP unless there's some way to temporarily cancel the Shift modifier. I don't know of a way to do that yet. When a key is really down, a KeyStrRelease event sent with xmacroplay seems to be overridden by the real keyboard. XKB *might* help the OP here, or it just might confuse the hell out of him. The "numpad:microsoft" XKB option might do something, maybe. I won't have time to fiddle with X things any more until much later today though.

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