Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-27 Thread Jack
At this point, I'm doing no better than guessing.  I'd suggest trying things.  I'd map the keycode of the keypress you want to use to the keycode of what the program seems to expect for that key. On 8/27/22 03:30, Walter Dnes wrote: That's on a real numeric keypad. Meanwhile on the Lenovo

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-27 Thread Walter Dnes
That's on a real numeric keypad. Meanwhile on the Lenovo Thinkpad left shift KeyPress event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0xe1, root 0x256, subw 0x0, time 25019825, (528,-50), root:(532,488), state 0x0, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-27 Thread Jack
On 2022.08.25 20:16, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 05:58:28PM -0400, Jack wrote > Ah - I expect the game is interpreting keycodes fairly directly. You > can use xev (or similar) to find what the various keys are currently > producing, and there must be some (Xorg related)

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 05:58:28PM -0400, Jack wrote > Ah - I expect the game is interpreting keycodes fairly directly. You > can use xev (or similar) to find what the various keys are currently > producing, and there must be some (Xorg related) program to translate > them to whatever the

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Jack
On 2022.08.24 17:21, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Jack wrote > On my keyboard, those corner keys on the keypad are End, PgDn, PgUp, > and NumLock, all of which have their own keys elsewhere on the > keyboard.. When you say angled arrow keys, do you mean that

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Jack wrote > On my keyboard, those corner keys on the keypad are End, PgDn, PgUp, > and NumLock, all of which have their own keys elsewhere on the > keyboard.. When you say angled arrow keys, do you mean that literally, > or are you just talking

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Jack
On 2022.08.24 08:16, Walter Dnes wrote: The Thinkpad has vertical and horizontal arrow keys. But it does not have arrow keys corresponding to 7, 9, 1, and 3 on a regular keyboard. Yes, I know how to "enable numeric keypad" on a Thinkpad. While that does emulate numbers, it does not emulate

[gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
The Thinkpad has vertical and horizontal arrow keys. But it does not have arrow keys corresponding to 7, 9, 1, and 3 on a regular keyboard. Yes, I know how to "enable numeric keypad" on a Thinkpad. While that does emulate numbers, it does not emulate the arrows. I happen to need the angled