On Fri, 26 Jul 2024, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 25.07.2024 um 16:37:58 Uhr schrieb Steven J Abner:
If I had to guess, Windows doesn't have Scroll Lock on by default.
I think my question was asked bad.
In Windows, Scroll Lock is disabled by default, but can be enabled by
pressing they scroll lock key.
On my Linux systems, this key is disabled until I activate it with
xmodmap.
After than scroll lock can be used like in windows.
My question is why is the key itself disabled by default on most X11
systems.
Curious !
I suspect what happened is that Scroll Lock function used to be defined in
XF86Config, and when we switched to not require XF86Config the settings
were lost to a minimal default.
See:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/FAQs/Video/XF86Config_5x.htm
A common use for Scroll Lock was for international keyboard layouts:
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Intkeyb/x89.html
I think now one can simply remap the key in the configuration utility.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
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Gruß
Marco
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