keypad assignments

[Thomas Wolff]

Hello,
I've managed to re-activate my Cygwin/XFree (there had been this 
disabled keyboard problem with a non-cygwin XKEYSYMDB variable setting 
since some recent release...).
So I discovered that, assumedly with that recent major revision, 
a keyboard handling deficiency has been introduced:

The keys of the right keypad (aka "numeric keypad") do no longer 
emit the keysyms KP_Home, KP_Up etc as they used to do but just 
plainly Home, Up etc which are also the keysyms of the small keypad 
(aka "editing keypad"). This makes them indistinguishable for any 
application - even worse, this cannot be fixed by configuration since 
they even send the same keycodes!

These are different keys - considering them as aliases is a waste of 
physical resources - and they must be distinguishable for an application.
That means, they must have different keycodes and they should also have 
different keysyms by default - that's what the KP_ keysyms are designed for.

Thanks and kind regards,
Thomas

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