I am having a hard time in i3 setting the numpad options to microsoft.
So I am running these commands:
> setxkbmap -option
This is to delete the options set.
Then I am running:
> setxkbmap -option numpad:microsoft
This actually runs successfully since the output of
> setxkbmap -print -verbos
> -- some keyboard switching applet, that uses XTest to do that.
I doubt that this some application running in the background because I have
faced this problem on MX Linux XFCE, Fedora KDE, Manjaro KDE, Manjaro KDE.
There is one detail that I have left out and I don't see how that can
affect anyt
> So the question is that is there any way VirtualBox can be causing this, I
> don't think it is interfering but you be the judge of that.
I suspect that this is the root of the weird behaviour.
One can think of various way of mapping key events from host to guest.
The one extreme is to do the ma
Sorry to have been a bother. I have inadvertently solved my own issue. And
the issue was Oracle VirtualBox. I am writing this from a live boot on
Manjaro i3 and everything works as expected. No weird or mysterious
keystrokes in xev. Thank you for all you help. I am sorry to have bothered
you with t
The culprit was Oracle VirtualBox. Nothing wrong with Linux. Just don't
expect Linux to behave completely normally when in a VM. This is one
example of a subtle issue.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:19 PM Sreyan Chakravarty
wrote:
> I am having a hard time in i3 setting the numpad options to microsof
Yes Andreas, you are absolutely right.
Thank you so much for your help. In my defense I never knew VirtualBox
could stab you in the back like this. I guess you learn something new every
day. I just wish I hadn't bothered all of you.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:21 AM Sreyan Chakravarty
wrote:
> So
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:26:17AM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> Yes Andreas, you are absolutely right.
> Thank you so much for your help. In my defense I never knew VirtualBox
> could stab you in the back like this. I guess you learn something new every
> day. I just wish I hadn't bothered al
