[Xmonad] Re: mod events not reaching xmonad

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Wed Apr 18 16:18:09 EDT 2007


sjanssen:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:04:18 +0200
> "Bas van Dijk" <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It seems like I've located the problem. Because I was doing some
> > numeric input in OpenOffice Calc I enabled num-lock. This seems to
> > change to modMask.
> > 
> > So the "solution" is to disable num-lock before giving xmonad
> > commands. However this is not a very user friendly solution.
> 
> xmonad does attempt to ignore numlockMask, but this value is not the
> same on all systems.  We're still looking for a more robust solution to
> this.

Do we do everything dwm does wrt. numLock? If not, we'll have to
document this for 0.1 at least.

-- Don


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