[ltp] NumLk key on T41

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:21:17 -0400


I no longer get that error, but numlock still doesn't seem to work.

Dmitriy Morozov wrote:
> I think that should be Num_Lock.
> 
> Dmitriy
> 
> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:13 am, Matt Graham wrote:
> 
>>On Wednesday 21 July 2004 09:47, after a long battle with
>>technology,
>>
>>Yip Wai Peng wrote:
>>
>>>Just wondering, there's a little numlock indictor which well,
>>>from the menu, appears to be turned on by Shift + ScrLk (NumLk)
>>>key. However, it does not come on when I do that.
>>
>>Thinkpads use a weird keycode for the NumLock key.  Do this:
>>
>>xmodmap -e 'keycode 77 = NumLock'
>>
>> ...and things will work properly.  HTH,
>>
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