On 09/16/2011 12:52 PM, Camaleón wrote:
Hum... I've been reading the file that is present in GNOME ("/etc/X11/xkb/
base.xml") and I think the variable you need to set in "/etc/default/
keyboard" could be "XKBOPTIONS=numpad:microsoft" (applying this this may
require a reboot) that way this will become a system-wide setting
regardless the DE :-?
Oh, come on, Camaleón! You've just spoiled my plans to waste a weekend playing with xev and a ~/.Xmodmap file! I was going to remap all of the keycodes for Shift-<numeric-key> combinations so that they always gave the directional results instead of numbers. (I know this would likely have led to some undesireable results. I was going to play with it until I had to admit defeat or until my family whacked me up the side of the head.)
Following your earlier hints I had already asked my Ubuntu / Gnome buddy (one of those BOFH types) if I could look at his system to see /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml (which doesn't exist on my system) with his NumLock behavior set to mimic Windows. He was giving me grief for asking him to sully his system with this setting. I may have stepped on his toes a little when I muttered something about it being pretty hard to "sully" an Ubuntu system. He said that he'd show me the file in a while, and then he left work for the weekend! (He'll claim on Monday that he forgot.)
Now what am I going to do with my weekend? Thanks to you I am now typing this from a properly-behaved (for my purposes) keyboard.
All I had to do was to change the line XKBOPTIONS="" to XKBOPTIONS="numpad:microsoft" in /etc/default/keyboard and then reboot. You're a living doll! Best regards, Gilbert