On 09/16/2011 12:52 PM, Camaleón wrote:
Hum... I've been reading the file that is present in GNOME ("/etc/X11/xkb/
base.xml") and I think the variable you need to set in "/etc/default/
keyboard" could be "XKBOPTIONS=numpad:microsoft" (applying this this may
require a reboot) that way this will become a system-wide setting
regardless the DE :-?
Oh, come on, Camaleón! You've just spoiled my plans to waste a weekend
playing with xev and a ~/.Xmodmap file! I was going to remap all of the
keycodes for Shift-<numeric-key> combinations so that they always gave
the directional results instead of numbers. (I know this would likely
have led to some undesireable results. I was going to play with it until
I had to admit defeat or until my family whacked me up the side of the
head.)
Following your earlier hints I had already asked my Ubuntu / Gnome buddy
(one of those BOFH types) if I could look at his system to see
/etc/X11/xkb/base.xml (which doesn't exist on my system) with his
NumLock behavior set to mimic Windows. He was giving me grief for asking
him to sully his system with this setting. I may have stepped on his
toes a little when I muttered something about it being pretty hard to
"sully" an Ubuntu system. He said that he'd show me the file in a while,
and then he left work for the weekend! (He'll claim on Monday that he
forgot.)
Now what am I going to do with my weekend? Thanks to you I am now typing
this from a properly-behaved (for my purposes) keyboard.
All I had to do was to change the line
XKBOPTIONS=""
to
XKBOPTIONS="numpad:microsoft"
in /etc/default/keyboard and then reboot.
You're a living doll!
Best regards,
Gilbert
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