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Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

what to get from keypad when Num Lk is not locked?

what is the keyboard of a standard PC supposed to send as input from the keypad when NumLk is not in the locked state?  is shift or alt or ctrl supposed to have any effect?  what is the keypad enter key supposed to send?  i do know there are keycodes involved.  what i want to know is what comes out from that (kernel) process that translates letter keys to ASCII.

when i have NumLk on i get my shortcuts activated that are set to switch workspace.  all 10 digits are set that way.  it works when i have NumLk on.  but when NumLk is off, there is no input.  i'm thinking that i would like to reverse this and have the shortcuts act when NumLk is off so i can get normal numbers from the keypad.

peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 152

Re: what to get from keypad when Num Lk is not locked?

I'm afraid this is not possible, when NumLock is off the number block is supposed to not work as if it doesn't exist, only in Windows the arrows (keys 8; 4; 6 and 2) work to move the cursor (maybe this also exists in linux, but I don't know it).

Skaperen

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From: right by Jesus, our Saviour

Registered: 2013-06-15

Posts: 862

Re: what to get from keypad when Num Lk is not locked?

xev certainly sees nothing.  but the cursor changes from a solid white box to a white outline.  so at least the kernel got something even though user-land processes (at least xev) got nothing.

now i'm more curious which Xfce process sees keyboard input first and which handles shortcuts.