Comment 47 for bug 192508
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| marius (marius-gala) wrote Re: mouse keys turns on randomly | #47 |
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Ok, since this bug is really annoying to me (and I can't help trying to understand/solve all the small problems I stumble over), I ran some other test. I hope some skilled programmer would like to investigate further and fix this.
While I was trying to fix a completely different problem related to the keyboard layout, I discovered "xev" and now I just tried it to see what happens when I press keypad numbers on the vnc client...
the result is that when NumLock is disabled, the "arrows" keys are generated (working as intended), but when NumLock is enabled (and numbers should result) NO EVENT is generated. It doesn't matter if mouse keys are turned on or off, no key press is detected. Not even the NumLock pressure is detected, and obviously the Shift+NumLock shortcut neither.
Locally, it all works as expected, and the shortcut is also recognized as Pointer_EnableKeys. So I'm even more sure than before that the bug lies in the vnc server code, since I tried two clients (RealVNC and TightVNC) and it'd sound strange to me if they both had the same bug. My vnc server is vino, that comes pre-installed.
Can anyone confirm? Maybe some good soul manages to work this out. Thanks.