[NMLUG] numlock ON

[pi at pihost.us (Anthony Martinez)]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:46:56AM -0600, Steve Browne 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 07:31:04 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >Steve Browne spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> >The arrow keys are there for people that need navigation AND the 10key.  
> 
> What is the "10key"?

the 10-number keypad

> 
> NumLock ON screws up the Backspace key - it writes question marks.
> That's a clear keyboard conflict.

I've NEVER had that problem in the years i've been using linux. ^? is actually
the keycode for Delete, which could be remapped to ^H (the keycode for
backspace) using some program, but i've never had to do that - I just fix the
terminal type depending on what term emulator i'm using.

As for having numlock off, I have a laptop, so having numlock on kills the
letter keys "uiopjkl;m,./" and changes 0 to / (once I set it and couldn't get it
off.. had to hard reboot.)

> 
> I was hoping that someone here would give a (brief) history of
> NumLock.
> 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Num_lock

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panic("Oh boy, that early out of memory?");
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