Bug#679613: xorg: Virtual mouse (shift+numlock) stops working after upgrading from squeeze to wheezy
Hello,
Le 30/06/2012 09:40, HDU a écrit :
Recently I upgrade my system to wheezy, and Shift + NumLock no longer
activates the virtual mouse (move cursor and click with the numeric keypad).
Google does not help me on this one.
By googling "xorg shift numlock" (instead of "wheezy xorg virtual
mouse", which gave me no leads), I found a solution to my problem. And I
learned that you english speakers call it "mouse keys", and not "virtual
mouse".
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=904880
Freedesktop decide to remove this function by default. I was not warned
by Debconf. And effectively, KDE reactivated it. BTW, I don't understand
why it work in kdm and sawfish for some users of the Debian User French ML.
To reactivate it, I put this in xorg.conf:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
Option "XkbVariant" "bepo7"
Option "XkbOptions"
"keypad:pointerkeys,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
I really struggled with this problem. I think Debconf should warn the
user, as for the removal of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut.
Maybe this bug sould be forwarded to the package xkb-data, since it
seems contain the file in question:
"I think the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc is missing a piece.
Changing the following line:
key <NMLK> { [ Num_Lock ] };
back to as it was in version 2.0.1:
key <NMLK> { [ Num_Lock, Pointer_EnableKeys ] };
brings back the mousekeys functionality for me."
But I don't know how to redirect a bug, and if I'm allowed to do so.
Thank for your attention,
HDU.
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