KVM/Scroll Lock behavior

2012-01-18 Thread Todd Pytel
Hi all, I'm digging around at a quirk involving Scroll Lock and KVM switching that I think X is responsible for and hoping someone here can explain it. At this point I can work around it myself. But I'd really like to understand it, or perhaps provoke a change to make it work better for others les

Re: KVM/Scroll Lock behavior

2012-01-18 Thread Todd Pytel
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 20:21 -0800, milk wrote: > As far as I know, the KVM switching should be hardware triggered. It > should not be related to X at all Well, that may be how it *should* work. But since switching works in the console, but not in several different WM's/desktops, it sure looks it a

Re: KVM/Scroll Lock behavior

2012-01-19 Thread Todd Pytel
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 10:34 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > These are extremely surprising. I'd have thought that KVM uses the > keyboard *keypresses*, not the LED changes, to achieve the switch... Especially since it's not *just* the LED's that matter - otherwise it would work after xmodmap. So,