Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/18/2016 04:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/18/2016 03:24 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: This is a wild guess, but it may have something to do with the keymap. As someone else mentioned, I believe the default is "numlock enabled", but if you're using a keyboard (or keymap) that doesn't have a nume

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/18/2016 03:24 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: This is a wild guess, but it may have something to do with the keymap. As someone else mentioned, I believe the default is "numlock enabled", but if you're using a keyboard (or keymap) that doesn't have a numeric pad, that default may not mean anything

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/18/2016 02:29 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Killian wrote: It's an Apple keyboard, maybe six years old but I don't ever recall seeing an Apple keyboard with numlock because there was never such a thing as navigation by keypad on Macs. Maybe run xev and s

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Killian wrote: >> It's an Apple keyboard, maybe six years old but I don't ever recall >> seeing an Apple keyboard with numlock because there was never such a >> thing as navigation by keypad on Macs. > > > Maybe run xev and see what keystrokes it's actually se

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Tom Killian
> > It's an Apple keyboard, maybe six years old but I don't ever recall > seeing an Apple keyboard with numlock because there was never such a > thing as navigation by keypad on Macs. Maybe run xev and see what keystrokes it's actually sending. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/18/2016 08:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: The external keyboard is a full keyboard and doesn't have a numlock key or it's just the number pad? Try installing the numlockx package and see if that helps. That did the trick *and* the rest o

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/18/2016 08:04 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/17/2016 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I am really sure there is no numlock key on this keyboard. If it's hidden, I'd identify it how? Every key has a label, some have two, none are numlock or an

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The external keyboard is a full keyboard and doesn't have a numlock key or > it's just the number pad? Try installing the numlockx package and see if > that helps. That did the trick *and* the rest of the keyboard, and the laptop keyboard, f

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/17/2016 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> I am really sure there is no numlock key on this keyboard. If it's >> hidden, I'd identify it how? Every key has a label, some have two, >> none are numlock or anything that could possibly be inter

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 00:47 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > My understanding is that he is using a full keyboard that has a number > pad, not a standalone number pad. Ah, I was misreading keyboard WITH a numberpad as keyboard AND a numberpad. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/17/2016 07:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/17/2016 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I am really sure there is no numlock key on this keyboard. If it's hidden, I'd identify it how? Every key has a label, some have two, none are numlock or anything that could possibly be interpreted as being nu

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/17/2016 09:34 PM, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 17:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: besides that, I think the numlock state is global Not on my (out-of-date) systems. I have full keyboards, laptops without numberpads, and an external USB numberpad. None of them have any affect on the ex

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2016-05-17 at 17:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > besides that, I think the numlock state is global Not on my (out-of-date) systems. I have full keyboards, laptops without numberpads, and an external USB numberpad. None of them have any affect on the external numberpad when I play with the

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/17/2016 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 05/17/2016 02:35 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Just a wild idea, but if the main keyboard has a numlock key, try toggling it and use the keypad

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/17/2016 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I am really sure there is no numlock key on this keyboard. If it's hidden, I'd identify it how? Every key has a label, some have two, none are numlock or anything that could possibly be interpreted as being numlock. Do you have a brand name and/or mod

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/17/2016 02:35 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Rick Stevens >> wrote: >>> >>> Just a wild idea, but if the main keyboard has a numlock key, try >>> toggling it and use the keypad. The system may be treating

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/17/2016 02:35 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Just a wild idea, but if the main keyboard has a numlock key, try toggling it and use the keypad. The system may be treating the keypad as cursor control. The keyboard does not have a numlock ke

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/17/2016 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a laptop with its own keyboard which lacks a keypad, and a USB >> keyboard with a keypad. I plug in the keyboard and the keypad doesn't >> work anywhere in Fedora. So... how d

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/17/2016 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a laptop with its own keyboard which lacks a keypad, and a USB >> keyboard with a keypad. I plug in the keyboard and the keypad doesn't >> work anywhere in Fedora. So... how d

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/17/2016 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: Hi, I have a laptop with its own keyboard which lacks a keypad, and a USB keyboard with a keypad. I plug in the keyboard and the keypad doesn't work anywhere in Fedora. So... how do I make that work? I don't care for it to work in the console, I only

Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 16/05/17 11:19, Chris Murphy wrote: Hi, I have a laptop with its own keyboard which lacks a keypad, and a USB keyboard with a keypad. I plug in the keyboard and the keypad doesn't work anywhere in Fedora. So... how do I make that work? I don't care for it to work in the console, I only care

keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

2016-05-17 Thread Chris Murphy
Hi, I have a laptop with its own keyboard which lacks a keypad, and a USB keyboard with a keypad. I plug in the keyboard and the keypad doesn't work anywhere in Fedora. So... how do I make that work? I don't care for it to work in the console, I only care if it works in GNOME Calculator really.