keypad assignments

[Paul Loewenstein]

Thomas,

I believe I have fixed the problem.  What program do you use for 
displaying the keycodes so I can test the fix before sending in the patch?

Paul

Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 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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