*- On 12 Sep, Carl Fink wrote about "Num lock disables alt- and ctrl-key shortcuts?" > [This message has also been posted.] > I've just noticed that both Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3 and RealMedia's > Realplayer G2 have an interesting behavior: if NumLock is activated, > their keyboard shortcuts that require shifted keys, like Alt-F for > the File menu or ^P for Print, don't work. On the other hand, > StarOffice 5.1's shortcuts work fine with NumLock on. > > I'd like to report the bug, but I'm not sure to whom. Since it > appears in other apps, but not StarOffice, I'm suspecting it's in > some X library. (StarOffice uses its own libraries for many > functions, which might explain why it's immune.) Anyone out there > have an insight as to where this should be reported? > > Running slink with a couple of potato packages, XFree86 3.3.2.3. > > Thanks.
What does 'xmodmap -pm' show? Mine gives: shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Meta_L (0x73), Meta_R (0x74) mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) Notice Num_Lock is assigned to mod2. This means that the Num_Lock key is a modifier key just like shift, ctrl, alt. So if Num_Lock is on then if you use Alt-F you are really doing Num_Lock-Alt-F. If you don't want Num_Lock to be a modifier you can disable it with xmodmap. xmodmap -e "clear mod2" See the xmodmap man page for more info. Debian's default X setup will read ~/.Xmodmap on startup so if you put 'clear mod2'(no quotes) in that file it will be taken care of automatically. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
