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Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may |
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also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... |
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I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the |
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EXACT same problem as WTS. |
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The problem appears to be an X keyboard mapping issue. In my situation, |
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the users only use the number keypad for entering numbers. So I created |
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the following |
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~/.Xmodmap: |
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keycode 79=7 |
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keycode 80=8 |
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keycode 81=9 |
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keycode 83=4 |
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keycode 84=5 |
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keycode 85=6 |
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keycode 87=1 |
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keycode 88=2 |
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keycode 89=3 |
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keycode 90=0 |
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keycode 91=period |
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keycode 86 = plus |
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keycode 77 = |
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This essentially hard codes the number keypad and (theoretically) |
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disables the Num Lock button ("keycode 77")--theoretically because the |
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number keypad now works perfectly but only if the Num Lock LED is ON on |
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the client side (Windows, in my case). |
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I still don't fully understand why or how this works because the number |
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keypad has always worked within X during a VNC session, problems arose |
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only during a Win4Lin or QEMU session and only within those sessions. |
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Anyway, thought this might help others who may be having the same or |
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similar problems. |
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~ Tom |
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John Jolet wrote: |
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> that no longer exists. |
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> at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they |
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> said use vanilla sources and patch. |
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> |
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> On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: |
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> |
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>> I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the |
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>> problem in your version. |
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>> |
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>> How do I go about getting a "win4lin-sources" kernel? I was unable to |
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>> one anywhere. Maybe I would have better luck with that. |
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>> |
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>> */Ron Bickers <rbickers-list-dspam@××××××××.com |
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>> <mailto:rbickers-list-dspam@××××××××.com>>/* wrote: |
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>> |
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>> On Thu December 8 2005 16:47, Tom Smith wrote: |
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>> |
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>> > Sorry, my brain's mush... I'm just a whole lot of tired! The |
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>> problem is |
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>> > that the Num Lock keypad doesn't work. |
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>> |
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>> I just tried it and it works for me. I'm running win4lin-5.1.1 (from |
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>> portage) with Win98SE and my custom win4lin-sources-2.6.11-r11 |
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>> kernel, which |
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>> is just a 2.6.11 gentoo-sources ebuild with the Win4Lin patches |
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>> added. |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> Ron |
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>> |
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>> |
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> |
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