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 <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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