"Alexander Gottwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, J S wrote: > > > Ah, not the answer I was expecting! Are you pulling my leg or was that a > > serious answer?! > > This is a serious answer. Numlock is treated as modifier key just like caps > lock or control. pressing a key while numlock is on is just like pressing > ctrl + key. >
I think perhaps the other part of this question is why some X11 servers on other platforms don't treat numlock as a modifier but XFree86 does. Could this be made configurable? I think this has been discussed before, though, so perhaps a search of the archives is in order... Cary
