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.
> 
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