Subject: Re: Keyboard Crashes
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@aros.net>
From: None <rmcm@compsoft.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/13/1998 10:10:56
Do you mean that the numlock-led turns on or the numlock-function
turns on? The led can be allowed to be controlled by clients, or
resticted to server control (Xleds config directive). The numlock
function is protocol dependent - in X11R6 NumLock is a modifier, in R5
is it not - so when switching between R5 and R6 clients the NumLock
may appear to have been magically toggled.
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Michael K. Sanders writes:
> In message <13778.8677.678620.874264@truffaut.int.compsoft.com.au>, rmcm@compso
> ft.com.au writes:
> >There are some other gotchas to look out for. X11R5 clients (like
> >netscape) treat some keys like numlock in a different way to the
> >X11R6 protocol. There is a hack advertised in the config file -
> >ServerNumLock - which appears to have a side-effect of causing
> >occasional keyboard-lockups and/or server-crashes with some X11R6
> >clients. I have found the pcvt without ServerNumLock to be the
> >most reliable combination - although numlock is not consistent
> >across all clients.
>
> Would this have anything to do with why my numlock key sporadically
> turns itself on?
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