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 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
