On 12.10.09 09:52, Glenn Skinner wrote: > 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.
in my case it was, although I was suspecting my xmodmap settings (IIRC, I started seeing this in 123 or 122); since I never turned this on (not on purpose anyway), I suspect the defaults have changed - is that the case? Michael > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
