Friday, March 11, 2011

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Gnome keyboard confusion

 

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:04 AM, dbneeley <dbneeley@gmail.com> wrote:
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<snip>
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> When I am in Gnome, my laptop keyboard takes
>on a virtual ten-key arrangement on a portion of its
>alphabetic keyboard. The laptop in question is an
>ultra-portable with no separate ten-key setup on the right).

You mean like a virtual number keypad (i.e., 0-9?)

>
><snip>I haven't tried Fluxbox as yet, but since so far Gnome
>is the only one with this issue on the same machine I
>presume it is a Gnome issue.
>
are the virtual keys supposed to be accessible via a function key, or
function-numberlock key combination? Mine works that way, but only in
windows. If I have the virtual number pad locked on in windows, then
boot into gnome-linux, there becomes no way to deactivate it. Same
goes for touchpad, wireless, etc. I have to boot back into Windows,
reenable, then good to go. I've confirmed this behaviour on my
specific laptop with both Ubuntu and Debian. I assume Windows is
modifying something at the bios level, that linux doesn't know how to
deal with. I've never considered testing this with a different
desktop to see if it persists, though.

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