Bug#233621: xlibs: NumPad period inactive on ABNT2

[Michel Loos <loos@qt1.iq.usp.br>]

Em Qui, 2004-02-19 às 04:36, Branden Robinson escreveu:
> tag 233621 + moreinfo
> retitle 233621 "xlibs: numeric keypad period key doesn't work on Brazilian ABNT2 keyboards"
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:16:41PM -0300, Michel Loos wrote:
> > Package: xlibs
> > Version: 4.2.1-16
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The NumPad period is inactive on Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard
> > 
> > The patch is small in order to make it work:
> > for
> > /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86
> > 
> > *** xfree86.old 2004-02-18 23:11:24.000000000 -0300
> > --- xfree86     2004-02-18 23:11:05.000000000 -0300
> > ***************
> > *** 353,358 ****
> > --- 353,359 ----
> >       include "xfree86(basic)"
> >       <BKSL> = 94;
> >       <AC12> = 51;
> > +     <KPPT> = 134;
> >   };
> 
> Can you try to reproduce this problem with xlibs 4.3.0-2, please?
> 

Just installed, same problem continues, same patch fixes it.

It is an old problem not a new feature, often heard here as a minus for
"Linux": only the comma of the NumPad works, not the period 
(ABNT2 keyboards have both)

Michel.


> XKB has been completely overhauled in XFree86 4.3.0.
-- 
Michel Loos <loos@qt1.iq.usp.br>