Bug#464041: xkb-data: Numlock does not work on many ThinkPad models
Package: xkb-data
Version: 1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1
Severity: normal
I have a ThinkPad T42. This and many other models of ThinkPad have
the NumLk key on Shift+ScrLk. (Why they didn't do that the other way
around I don't know.) On a Linux console, pressing Shift+ScrLk
toggles numlock. However, in X, pressing Shift+NumLk does not toggle
numlock; instead, it starts a mode in which the numeric keypad keys
control the mouse. Note that this occurs even in a bare X session
with only xterm running.
In order to make numlock work, I run this:
xmodmap -e "keycode 77 = Num_Lock"
Doing so makes numlock work as expected.
According to
<http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work#NumLock>,
this issue applies to numerous ThinkPad models, including at least
"the ThinkPad 600, T20, T21, T22, T30, X20, X21, X31, X40, T42p, T43,
R51, R52".
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
-- no debconf information
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