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Re: F1 & F4 do not work with xwin-6.8.1.0-10
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:11:10 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: F1 & F4 do not work with xwin-6.8.1.0-10
- References: <200502072017.j17KH3RG028445@beta.mvs.co.il>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Ehud Karni wrote:
> The problem: F1 and F4 don't work with xwin-6.8.1.0-10.
> Temporary workaround - using xmodmap:
> xmodmap -e "keycode 208 = 0xffbe" # set F1
> xmodmap -e "keycode 211 = 0xffc1" # set F4
>
> Notes:
> It seems that the problem caused by the keycodes assigned to F1 and F4.
> They should have been on keycodes 67 / 70 but they are on 208 / 211.
>
> I did not have this problem with any previous version of Xwin.
> (i.e. xwin-6.8.1.0-9 or before).
>
> uname -a:
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 p4-1700-xp 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>
> Below are the `xev' output and XWin.log
> [snip]
The obvious question: is your NumLock on?
Igor
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