On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:10:02PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: >Bugzilla 558 requests to change the behavoir of shift+<numpad arrow keys> > >> In reasonable X GUIs (GNome/KDE), shift + <regular arrow key> selects text. >> But if i press shift + <numpad arrow key>, i get numbers! So the current XKB >> behavior makes Shift kind of like the "lockless" version of Numlock, which is >> insane, IMHO. the numpad keys are *arrow* keys (unless numlock is turned on) >> by definition. Shift should have no effect on them. The current behavior is >> contrary to what Windows users are used to (and highly annoying for this >> reason). I see no reason to have a different behaviour to Microsoft in this >> regard (seeing as though this can potentially piss off 90+% of users), apart >> from the sake of wanting to be different (which is not a good reason). >> Instead of a being just a whinger, I provide this patch (please apply with -l) > >This requests sounds reasonable so I would like to find out if >somebody has a strong opinion on this issue. >If not I will commit the supplied fix.
Since X has been documented to work this way for a long time, it would be better to make the behaviour configurable than to just change it. Personally I wouldn't notice the difference either way though. On the other hand, apps/toolkits that interpret shifted arrow keys should be able to achieve the requested behaviour for the numpad keys without any XKB changes. That might be the most reliable way for them to get uniform behaviour across a range of X platforms, including when XKB isn't enabled. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
