Locked CTRL key in Matlab using

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, David Alberg Holm wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> After updating to the latest Cygwin (1.5.11)/Xfree (6.7.0.0-8) I am having
> problems using matlab. Inside matlab the keys act as if CTRL was pressed all
> the time. Outside matlab (shells, mozilla and so forth) the keys work as
> expected. 
> 
> My keyboard is danish and I have tried using both the danish as well as
> german keyboard layouts and the problem is the same. If I run Xwin with the
> -kb switch I can use the keyboard in matlab but then the keyboard is in US
> layout.
> 
> In an older version of cygwin (1.5.5) and Xfree (4.3.0-1) everything worked
> but I had problems with frequent crashes.
> 
> I have tried searching the forums as well as google but could not find a
> solution to my problem.

What does xev report when you press the keys? 

Just a wild guess: Try disabling NumLock. Some programs think NumLock is a normal
modifier key like Ctrl or Alt.

bye
	ago

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