From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 1 02:28:23 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA17128 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 02:28:23 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA16971 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 02:25:52 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA17712; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:23:52 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA04003; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:23:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA06131; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:55:30 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508010655.IAA06131@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problem with X apps To: wilcox@math.psu.edu (Ken Wilcox) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:55:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bstubbs@seas.gwu.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507311846.OAA15642@napier.math.psu.edu> from "Ken Wilcox" at Jul 31, 95 02:46:44 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 815 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)