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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 7:41 pm    Post subject: Making X11 use the Microsoft numpad behavoir Reply with quote

I just setup Gentoo on my laptop, and since it's a laptop keyboard I tend to use Shift+Numpad 7 to select from my cursor to the beginning of a line. Unfortunately, the default behavior of X11 is to make that key combination type "7" instead, which is pretty far from what I actually want it to do. There is an option that changed this behavior in OpenSUSE and in Ubuntu (when I used them), but this doesn't work here despite being picked up by X11:

My 00-keyboard.conf file:
Code:

# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
        Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,numpad:microsoft"
EndSection


The output of localectl showing that the numpad:microsoft option is picked up:

Code:

   System Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8
                  LC_COLLATE=C
       VC Keymap: us
      X11 Layout: us
       X11 Model: pc105+inet
     X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,numpad:microsoft


Further, there are no errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log about this option (but it does show that it was picked up from the file).
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it work if you run
Code:
$ setxkbmap -option numpad:microsoft
?

What if you remove terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp from xorg.conf?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
setxkbmap
appears to work, but only if I run it manually. I've tried putting it in ~/.profile, ~/.xinitrc, /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default, but after a login it still defaults to the behavior I don't want.

Removing terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp from xorg.conf doesn't change anything either.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My theory is then that you are using a desktop environment which interferes with your keyboard settings.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found a setting in GNOME Tweak Tool that fixed it (Typing->Miscellaneous Compatibility Options->Numlock on:...).
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