Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:46:03 +0100 (BST) From: "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two questions (Num Lock problem under X) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904142340060.248-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904132118420.551-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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>On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:
>>>>> Firstly, when using some applications, particularly vi, in an xterm under
>>>>> X the numeric keypad produces garbage like
>>>>> y
>>>>> x
>>>>> w
>>>>> v
>>>>> u
>>>>> this when I try to use it to get numbers.
>>>>
>> FWIW, ServerNumLock is commented out in my /etc/XF86Config and my
>> kbd behaves exactly the same as yours, i.e. the arrow keys work
>> with NumLock off and I get a single letter & linefeed when the
>> NumLock is off. I'm running 3.1 off the CDs.
>>
>> Just a thought but, we are both in the UK and so will (probably)
>> have our keyboards setup differently to Doug. These are my settings
>> for the kbd in /etc/XF86Config:
>>
>>
>> Protocol "Standard"
>> XkbRules "xfree86"
>> XkbModel "pc102"
>> XkbLayout "gb"
>> XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
I have
XkbDisable
XkbKeymap "xfree86(us)"
This is silly, surely...
Is it the problem?
>> and in /etc/rc.conf I have:
>>
>> keymap="uk.cp850" # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO).
keymap="uk.cp850" # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO)
Yes, me too.
-------------------
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:
>I have the same problem, in Xterm. I switched to rxvt and the problem
>stopped. I have no idea why rxvt works and Xterm doesn't.
This is interesting. Using rxvt (as fresh out of the ports collection) it
still has the same problem for me.
Thanks,
Ben.
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