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From: gstiehl@pixel.convex.com (Greg Stiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Ncd keyboard num-lock
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.193608.27897@convex.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 19:36:08 GMT
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In article <18034@memqa.uucp>, qfhca81@memqa.uucp (Henry Melton) writes:
> I am currently using an NCD X-terminal with their RT-101 keyboard.  This
> keyboard has the NUM-LOCK key on the upper left of the keypad, where the DEC
> style "gold-key" is.  I have re-defined the NUM-LOCK key to generate the 
> correct escape sequence for the DEC applications.  However, it still lights the
> num-lock light and performs the num-lock function, and when lit, does not 
> generate the escape sequence.  
>
> How can I completely get rid of this num-lock activity?

From the xmodmap man page:

     One of the more irritating differences between keyboards is
     the location of the Control and Shift Lock keys.  A common
     use of xmodmap is to swap these two keys as follows:

          !
          ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
          !
          remove Lock = Caps_Lock
          remove Control = Control_L
          keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
          keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
          add Lock = Caps_Lock
          add Control = Control_L

From a xmodmap -pm of my office mates NCD:

	shift       Shift_L (0x12)
	lock        Caps_Lock (0x11)
	control     Control_L (0x14)
	mod1        Alt_L (0x19)
	mod2
	mod3
	mod4
	mod5        Num_Lock (0x76)

I would try giving this to xmodmap:

	remove mod5 = Num_Lock
	keysym Num_Lock = "gold-key escape sequence"

Defining something else to be the "Num_Lock" is left as an exercize to
the reader (I've always wanted to say that :-)

-greg.

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Greg Stiehl (gstiehl@convex.com)
Graphics Sofware
Convex Computer Corp.