Jim Oldfield wrote:
> I notice in preferences that ctrl+return is bound to "newline-insert 
> newline", 
> and so I tried adding a key binding from ctrl+enter to that.  But it doesn't 
> seem to work, and when I reopen the preferences dialog the mapping has 
> disappeared.

this "ctrl+enter" appears in keybinding dialog if you hit your main enter+ctrl?

> The reason for this is that on my stupid laptop (Dell Vostro 1720), pressing 
> the 
> main return key generates a numeric keypad enter keypress instead (even 
> though 
> my laptop has a separate numeric keypad!)  Apparently this is a bug in the 
> firmware, and an update is available, but I'm not going to risk fiddling with 
> my 
> laptop's firmware for such a minor issue, especially since all programs I use 
> except LyX treat these two keys identically.  At least LyX recognises it for 
> new 
> paragraphs though!

are you on linux? xmodmap could help to solve this for the whole system.
pavel

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