Unfortunately, the culprit is not MouseKeys; the preferences panel
shows the facility as being disabled, and the mouse pointer remains
stationary when a navigation key is pressed and held.
A little more thought made me realize that there are other
applications without this problem. For example, in the Calculator
desktop accessory the keypad keys work as expected. Do they have to
do something special to enable them?
-- Glenn
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:13:06 -0400
From: Willie Walker <William.Walker at sun.com>
Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] keypad keys unavailable
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.
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.
