On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Have you got the Num Lock key engaged? It was pointed out to me recently
> that if you press Num Lock, the eximon menus stop working. This
> certainly happens to me on Solaris 2. I don't understand it, because
> they work for other applications. I'm afraid I don't know enough about X
> to even start to figure out what is going on. Any Xperts on this list?
This is because in at least the later releases of X11R6, NumLock has
become a key modifier a la Ctrl, Meta, and so on, rather than just
altering the codes generated by the keyboard.
It breaks quite a lot of other things (like the fvwm window manager, which
with the default bindings stops being able to move the window about with
the mouse if Numlock is on - whee! At least, on every SGI I have tried it
on, anyway).
Personally, I think making NumLock a modifier was an idiotic thing to do,
but there you go.
Tim.
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