Am Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:36:47 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>:
> 160921 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > On 21 September 2016 at 06:46, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> > > wrote: > >> I've been a happy user of Fluxbox for many years, > >> but am willing to see how well KDE 5 works in 2016 . > > You should install plasma-desktop and use startkde in your > > ~/.xinitrc . > > Thanks. I've been trying out KDE 5 for the past week > & generally it's usable : it's about as quick to start as Fluxbox, > given that it starts apps automatically, cursor movements seem > smoother & some window expansions are a bit cleaner. > > However, I've discovered that it's not recognising the numeric pad > keys : they simply have no effect, even as surplus cursor keys. > There was a discussion in a forum in 2015 about this problem > & it was traced back to a bug in Qt 5.5 , supposedly fixed in 5.6 . > I'm using 5.6 , but the problem is still there. > > Has anyone else encountered this ? Are there any suggestions ? > Yes, I use Numlockx & have tried all options in SystemSettings. > The numeric pad works without difficulty in Fluxbox. Maybe by accident you enabled to move the mouse with these keys? It's somewhere in the system settings. I think there's also a hot key for enabling it (which could explain why it's enabled by accident). -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
