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On 2022.08.24 17:21, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Jack wrote |
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> > On my keyboard, those corner keys on the keypad are End, PgDn, PgUp, |
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> > and NumLock, all of which have their own keys elsewhere on the |
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> > keyboard.. When you say angled arrow keys, do you mean that |
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> literally, |
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> > or are you just talking about the corner keys of the keypad? I |
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> don't |
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> > recall ever seeng a literal angled arrow on a keyboard. |
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> |
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> No literal arrows. But an old OS/2 game I enjoy, treats the numeric |
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> keypads as... |
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> {HOME} ==> move up and to the left |
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> {PgUp} ==> move up and to the right |
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> {END} ==> move down and to the left |
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> {PgDn} ==> move down and to the right |
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> |
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> I have tried {HOME}, {PgUp}, {END}, {PgDn} on the Thinkpad but the |
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> game did not respond. If I attach a big clunky regular USB keyboard, |
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> it |
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> works as expected. |
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Ah - I expect the game is interpreting keycodes fairly directly. You |
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can use xev (or similar) to find what the various keys are currently |
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producing, and there must be some (Xorg related) program to translate |
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them to whatever the program is expecting - perhaps determined by using |
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xev with a "proper" keyboard. Wasn't there an early rogue-like game |
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that used some of the main keys in the same way, but without invoking |
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the numeric keypad? |
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