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 <sreya...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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 -verbose 10
>
> is:
>
> Setting verbose level to 10
> locale is C
> Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
> Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
> Success.
> Applied rules from evdev:
> rules: evdev
> model: pc105
> layout: us
> options: numpad:microsoft
> Trying to build keymap using the following components:
> keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
> types: complete+numpad(microsoft)
> compat: complete
> symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev)
> geometry: pc(pc105)
> xkb_keymap {
> xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
> xkb_types { include "complete+numpad(microsoft)" };
> xkb_compat { include "complete" };
> xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" };
> xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
> };
>
> Yet when I Press Shift+KP_1 (NumLock ON) I get KP_1 and not KP_End.
>
> The changes seem to have no effect whatsoever.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sreyan Chakravarty
>
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
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