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Re: keyboard issues



Hi Stefan,

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:21 PM Stefan Niestegge <beetle@abbuc.de> wrote:
> Using dpk-reconfigure keyboard-configuration i can choose Atari TT
> keyboard with my DE layout, which does pretty well.
>
> In older X11 (XFree86) documentation, there is "ataritt" layout for X11.
> The Debian sid we now work on does not know that layout and defaults to
> PC105 even when my xorg.conf clearly defines ataritt.
>
> The tool xev shows that cursor keys produce same keycodes as found
> with numpad keys. I have not completely understood how that works,
> or there is a more serious issue here.

It assumes a PC keyboard, and (nonexistent?) NumLock is turned off,
so 2/4/6/8 produce cursor events?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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