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Re: numlock
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:55:59 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: numlock
- References: <Sea2-F210216Aha0jCa0004655f@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, J S wrote:
> Harold,
>
> This is simply a bug report. The FACT is that if you start XFree with the
> numlock key on, the keyboard doesn't work properly. There have been plenty
> of other posts about this in the past so I'm not the first to report this.
> Even if you don't care about it, and it doesn't affect you, I think you'll
> find a lot of users (who don't necessarily post here) have come across the
> numlock issue. I know my users have, and everyone agrees this is a BUG.
>
> No one has asked you to do the work for this though - If I can, I'll provide
> the patch using Thomas' code, but as the one in charge of this project,
> you're the man who says whether such a patch goes into the build. I was just
> trying to get some involvement from you, maybe encouragement.
Go on. If the patch is good an useful there are very good chances it will be
included.
> Xwin -numlockoff
sounds good.
bye
ago
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