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RE: Problem with numerical input for certain applications in Cygwin
- From: "scott Langford" <slang at plan9inc dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:31:46 -0500
- Subject: RE: Problem with numerical input for certain applications in Cygwin
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Igor,
Thank you for your reply. Indeed I am using the X forwarding features of
ssh. I read somewhere (in my many searches) that there could be some
hardware related issues to the num-lock, so I will follow that thread.
Unfortunately, I am trying to use the digits above the alphabetical keys
instead of the keypad (but I think it was a good suggestion). Thanks for
your help and sorry for the post to the wrong mailing list.
Scott Langford
-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 7:26 PM
To: scott Langford
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem with numerical input for certain applications in
Cygwin
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, scott Langford wrote:
> I am running Cygwin to ssh onto a Linux server which handles a couple
of
> applications that I use for design work. When I run the applications
> there are various fill forms which require numeric entry. For some
> reason I cannot make any numeric input into these forms. The same
forms
> have character entry which works fine. I tried the FAQ and users Guide
> but could not find any examples of this exact problem. I have some
Linux
> support but that person was basically at a loss. I am not sure where
to
> look to correct this problem. When I run directly on my Linux server I
> do not have this problem. I suspect there is some setup in my
startx.sh
> file that may help. Any suggestions?
You haven't specified exactly *how* you invoke the applications on
Linux,
but I suspect they are X applications and you invoke them via the X
forwarding feature of ssh. This makes your question off-topic for the
main list, and on-topic for the cygwin-xfree list (which the Reply-To of
this message points to). If you aren't using X, please follow-up to the
main list with more details.
As for your problem, in the absense of more information, it looks like
you're seeing weird Num-Lock-related behavior, which is a known problem
with Cygwin/X. Try using the digits above the alphabetical keys instead
of the keypad. I also seem to recall some recipes for making Num-Lock
work properly -- searching the cygwin-xfree archives may help.
Igor
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