On 06/08/09 12:43, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Michael Schuster wrote: >> - the "+" button causes what I'd call the "select to here" behaviour, >> here being the mouse cursor (seen in xterm and gvim). In thunderbird, >> the text cursor just moves to where the mouse currently "sits". When I >> move the mouse to a different window, this window is selected. >> >> Alan Coopersmith suggested I try this with xev, which I did; it seems >> that where the regular keys produce KeyPress events immediately followed >> by a KeyRelease event, I only see KeyRelease events for the keys that >> are not working; *sometimes* these are preceeded by ButtonPress events. > > Sounds like you may have activated the MouseKeys feature in the accessibility > options which makes your numpad emulate a mouse, such as shown at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousekeys >
bingo. thx a lot! Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
