Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

[Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Killian <tom.killian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's an Apple keyboard, maybe six years old but I don't ever recall
>> seeing an Apple keyboard with numlock because there was never such a
>> thing as navigation by keypad on Macs.
>
>
> Maybe run xev and see what keystrokes it's actually sending.

KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 813446, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 84 (keysym 0xff9d, KP_Begin), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 813526, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 84 (keysym 0xff9d, KP_Begin), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 813630, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 85 (keysym 0xff98, KP_Right), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 813685, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 85 (keysym 0xff98, KP_Right), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 813829, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 79 (keysym 0xff95, KP_Home), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 813910, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 79 (keysym 0xff95, KP_Home), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 814014, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 80 (keysym 0xff97, KP_Up), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 814094, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 80 (keysym 0xff97, KP_Up), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 814190, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 81 (keysym 0xff9a, KP_Prior), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
    root 0x4c7, subw 0x0, time 814270, (626,458), root:(660,1445),
    state 0x0, keycode 81 (keysym 0xff9a, KP_Prior), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False


In any case, numlockx does put it into a mode where the keypad numbers
come through. Where I'd think GNOME Shell would do something similar
by default because, well, who navigates by keypad these days?



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Chris Murphy
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