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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:55:30 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        wilcox@math.psu.edu (Ken Wilcox)
Cc:        bstubbs@seas.gwu.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with X apps
Message-ID:  <199508010655.IAA06131@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507311846.OAA15642@napier.math.psu.edu> from "Ken Wilcox" at Jul 31, 95 02:46:44 pm

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As Ken Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Try adding this line to the "Keyboard" section of your XF86Config file.
> 
> ServerNumLock
> 
> for some reason, the Xserver wants control of the numlock key.

ServerNumLock is considered a big hack.  Turn off your NumLock key, or
fix the broken X clients (and file your fixes back to the XConsortium
:).

This is a well-known X11 bug.  Other architectures (e.g. SGI IRIX) do
also suffer from it, but it's particularly apparent in FreeBSD since
the X server inherits the NumLock setting from the console driver, and
the latter defaults to `on' in most cases.

XFree 3.1.2 is said to work around this by turning it off initially in
the X server.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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