[ltp] Re: Weird keyboard problem

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:26, after a long battle with technology, 
Eben King wrote:
[problems with NumLock, snipped]
> Shift-numlk (scrlk) works under SuSE 9.1 in the console, but the
> change is not reflected in a running KDE session.  I did not try
> starting KDE _after_ numlk was invoked.

The NumLock key on Thinkpads uses a weird keycode, which confuses X.  Do 
this:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 77 = Num_Lock'

...and NumLock will work properly under X and in the console.  If you're 
using KDE, put a shell script that executes this command in your 
~/.kde/Autostart/ directory.  This question and the answer to it should 
go in the FAQ for this mailing list IMHO.  HTH,

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