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 this.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:15 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -- 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 anything ----- I am running in VirtualBox. All these OSes I have > tested in Oracle VirtualBox, my host OS is Windows 8.1 which handles > Shift+KP_1 with numlock on perfectly. > > 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. > > > -- some strange intellectual behaviour of the hardware (keyboard > itself). > > I hope not. Windows seems to handle this perfectly. > > Output of : > xkbcomp "$DISPLAY" /tmp/dump.xkb > > https://pastebin.com/trELUzsP > > It is 1912 lines so I used pastebin. > > Please let me know if you find anything. > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:22 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> If I print my current layout can you help me with the rules that are set >> for the numpad? >> >> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 12:19 pm Sreyan Chakravarty, <sreya...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> So what do I do now? Where do I report a bug? >>> >>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 1:17 am James Cloos, <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote: >>> >>>> yes, for that kb it prob is not any of the weird hw things i've >>>> encountered. >>>> >>>> not sure why it could do that, then... >>>> >>>> -JimC >>>> -- >>>> James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6 >>>> >>> > > -- > Regards, > Sreyan Chakravarty > -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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