Re: [orca-list] numlock was Laptop keyboard problems

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

This problem was discussed a few weeks ago on this list.  Here is Will's 
response:


From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca-2.21.92 Flat Review Bug


> Hi David:
>
> For various reasons, mostly which are historical and not understood very
> well, the NumLock key is a very toxic key for X Windows in general.  If
> it were taken out back and put out of its misery, I would not complain.
>
> We have a couple related bugs on this subject, which I hope we can get
> to early on in the GNOME 2.24 release cycle:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494196
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498008
>
> Will
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Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 5:02 AM
Subject: [orca-list] numlock was Laptop keyboard problems


> > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:16:18 -0700
> > From: Steve Holmes
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Laptop keyboard problems
> > To: orca-list gnome org
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> > Speaking of Numlock, I just noticed a problem today where the numlock
> > key doesn't appear to work properly inside Orca. At least while in a
> > terminal, pressing the numlock key each time just says "Num lock" but
> > the num pad keys still just read Orca functions like current word,
> > current line, etc. It's like the numlock toggle is not happening. I
> > don't know if this is just the terminal or not.
> I was getting ready to post this problem myself.  I'm using the desktop 
> layout and I noticed whenever I try using the numllock it still 
> manipulates orca instead.  I've mainly trid this in gedit and openoffice 
> writer.
>
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