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

Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 18 May 2016 15:24:56 -0700

On 05/18/2016 02:29 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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?

This is a wild guess, but it may have something to do with the keymap.
As someone else mentioned, I believe the default is "numlock enabled",
but if you're using a keyboard (or keymap) that doesn't have a numeric
pad, that default may not mean anything so numlock is NOT enabled.
Weird, but there's a LOT of stuff in Gnome that's weird (which is one
reason I do not use it).
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