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Re: numlock


Thanks a lot Alex. I'll do my best.


> Harold,
>
> This is simply a bug report. The FACT is that if you start XFree with the
> numlock key on, the keyboard doesn't work properly. There have been plenty
> of other posts about this in the past so I'm not the first to report this.
> Even if you don't care about it, and it doesn't affect you, I think you'll
> find a lot of users (who don't necessarily post here) have come across the
> numlock issue. I know my users have, and everyone agrees this is a BUG.
>
> No one has asked you to do the work for this though - If I can, I'll provide
> the patch using Thomas' code, but as the one in charge of this project,
> you're the man who says whether such a patch goes into the build. I was just
> trying to get some involvement from you, maybe encouragement.


Go on. If the patch is good an useful there are very good chances it will be
included.


> Xwin -numlockoff

sounds good.

bye
	ago
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