On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:24:01 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 09/16/2011 12:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Hum... I've been reading the file that is present in GNOME >> ("/etc/X11/xkb/ base.xml") and I think the variable you need to set in >> "/etc/default/ keyboard" could be "XKBOPTIONS=numpad:microsoft" >> (applying this this may require a reboot) that way this will become a >> system-wide setting regardless the DE :-? > > Oh, come on, Camaleón! You've just spoiled my plans to waste a weekend > playing with xev and a ~/.Xmodmap file! I was going to remap all of the > keycodes for Shift-<numeric-key> combinations so that they always gave > the directional results instead of numbers. (I know this would likely > have led to some undesireable results. I was going to play with it until > I had to admit defeat or until my family whacked me up the side of the > head.)
Now you can relax, take a cold beer and watch on your HDTV the full saga (extended version) of The Lord Of The Rings with no distractions :-P > Following your earlier hints I had already asked my Ubuntu / Gnome buddy > (one of those BOFH types) if I could look at his system to see > /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml (which doesn't exist on my system) with his > NumLock behavior set to mimic Windows. He was giving me grief for asking > him to sully his system with this setting. I may have stepped on his > toes a little when I muttered something about it being pretty hard to > "sully" an Ubuntu system. He said that he'd show me the file in a while, > and then he left work for the weekend! (He'll claim on Monday that he > forgot.) > > Now what am I going to do with my weekend? Thanks to you I am now typing > this from a properly-behaved (for my purposes) keyboard. > > All I had to do was to change the line > > XKBOPTIONS="" > > to > > XKBOPTIONS="numpad:microsoft" > > in /etc/default/keyboard and then reboot. > > You're a living doll! Was just that!? He, he... great! :-) I'm afraid you will also have to thanks Google's smart algorithms. Heck, I made a simple search for "xmodmap+numpad:microsoft" (you were insisting in xmodmap so much...) and one of the results lead me to that setting but, to be sincere, I wasn't sure if that was going to work O:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.16.19.02...@gmail.com