Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:16:56 -0700
From: Michael Schuster <Michael.Schuster at sun.com>
Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] keypad keys unavailable
On 12.10.09 09:52, Glenn Skinner wrote:
> Unfortunately, the culprit is not MouseKeys; the preferences
> panel shows the facility as being disabled, and the mouse
> pointer remains stationary when a navigation key is pressed and
> held.
in my case it was, although I was suspecting my xmodmap settings
(IIRC, I started seeing this in 123 or 122); since I never turned
this on (not on purpose anyway), I suspect the defaults have
changed - is that the case?
I don't know whether or not defaults have changed recently.
Xmodmap shows that the keys do indeed have bindings to the keysyms one
would expect. Output from running xev confirms that the keys emit the
expected events when pressed and released.
But the emacs I run never sees these events when it has the input
focus.
Are there new (post-ICCCM) window manager hints that clients are now
supposed to supply when they want to see input from these keys?
> A little more thought made me realize that there are other
> applications without this problem. For example, in the
> Calculator desktop accessory the keypad keys work as expected.
> Do they have to do something special to enable them?
>
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:01 -0700, Glenn Skinner wrote:
> > ...
> > I use the ancient Gosling/UniPress version of emacs and
> > have established bindings for all the keys on the numeric
> > keypad (on the Sun type 7 keyboard). Much to my chagrin,
> > none of the following keys is visible to emacs (something
> > else appears to be intercepting keypress events before
> > they get to emacs): ".", "1"-"9".
> >
> > Originally, I had this problem with a larger set of keys,
> > but was able to use Keyboard Shortcuts in system
> > preferences to remove global shorcuts that hid them from
> > emacs. The keys listed above are the ones that remain
> > after the shortcut purge.
> >
> > Using these keys is deeply wired into my muscle memory and
> > I very much want to get them back for use within emacs.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can to to
> > reclaim them?
-- Glenn
