Hi Glenn:

It might be MouseKeys -- System->Preferences->Keyboard->MouseKeys.
You'll know if it's MouseKeys if you press and hold one of the
navigation keys (e.g., KP_4, KP_6, KP_8, KP_2) and the mouse pointer
moves.

Will

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:01 -0700, Glenn Skinner wrote:
> I'm (finally) making the switchover from CDE to Gnome and am trying to
> reestablish my working environment.  I've run into several issues, but
> the following is at the top of my list.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
> 
> Please include me explicitly on any reply as I'm not subscribed to
> this alias.
> 
>               -- Glenn Skinner
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