Re: abiword problem

[John Bridleman <jbridleman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:00 AM 9/27/00 -0400, you wrote:

 >>>I tested it on my version and found the same thing so I downloaded the
 >>>latest 0.7.11 and it does the same thing.
 >>>
 >>>You may have found a bug.
 >>Thanks, John, for testing the problem.  I'll be a good (Bob Brown last
 >>night) LINUX user and report the problem to Abisystems.
 >
 >This is most certainly a bug.  In the beginning MANY programs suffered
 >from this problem including Applix (no back space) and Workperfect with
 >the numeric keypad.  X sends keyboard events to the application as
 >"Key Syms", and the application's event handler is not recognizing the
 >Key Sym.  This is particularly common on code written in foriegn countries
 >that may use other keyboards (which generate diffrent key syms).  As
 >an expirement run:
 >
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_Divide = slash"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_Decimal = period"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_Add = plus"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_Subtract = minus"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_Multiply = asterisk"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_Enter = Return"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_0 = 0x30"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_1 = 1 F13 F22"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_2 = 2 F14 F23"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_3 = 3 F15 F24"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_4 = 4 F16 F25"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_5 = 5 F17 F26"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_6 = 6 F18 F27"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_7 = 7 F19 F28"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_8 = 8 F20 F29"
 >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e "keysym KP_9 = 9 F21 F30"
 >
 >while in X, restart Abi and see what happens (don't worry the above
 >changes are NOT permenent and will be reset once you log out.)  This
 >makes the numeric keys THE SAME AS the numeric keys on the top of
 >you keyboard.  NumLock now serves basically no purpose.  If this
 >fixes it it is certainly a Key Sym issue.

That fixes it.