Numlock

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 07:06, Thomas Dodd uttered:
> I've seen several application misbehave when num-lock is on.
> A big one form me is HP's SmarTest. Its's motif based. It's the UI for a
> some test equipment, that I use for testing SRAM (single, dual, and quad
> ports, FIFOs , and even some CPLDs). I often display it remotely to my
> Linux and Solaris machines. It won't work correctly if numlock is on, on
> either machine.
>
> Sure, it's a bug in the application, but not one I can fix. HP is very
> slow to fix bugs, and the fixes usually require the purchase of a new
> version.
>
> I've seen similar behavior in other apps on Solaris. So there are valid
> reason not to have numlock on. I've seen a few apps on Solaris that use
> the numpad keys as numbers when numlock is off too. As I recal, they
> didn't behave well when numlock was on.

Which is why numlock status should be a user configurable choice.

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Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE
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