regarding keyboard shortcuts

[Chuck Robey]

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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Chuck Robey wrote:
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>> I seem to be having a couple of problems in trying to get keyboard shortcuts
>> that I had under KDE3.5 working under KDE4.2.  I will give you the one that
>> bothering me the most, today.
>>
>> It's the use of the 2, 4, 6, and 8 keys on the numeric keypad (the ones which
>> have the arrows on them).  They were announced under the old regime as KP2, KP4,
>> KP6, and KP8, but in my latest, it seems to be naming the keys indentically to
>> the small application -cursor keys to the immediate left of the numeric keypad
>> (I don't know the name of that little 4 key area), so they're announced as "up",
>> "down", "left", and "right", and it won't let me use those numeric keypad keys.
>>  Since the name is the same, I can't seem to grab those arrow keys in the
>> numeric keypad, at all.  I wish to switch up, down, left, and right for
>> desktops, considering that I run 9 in a 3x3 physical matrix.
>>
> This is odd.  I suspect that the problem might be in Qt.  However, you 
> should check to see that X11 is doing this correctly.  In a Konsole, 
> execute:
> 
> 	xev
> 
> and then put the mouse cursor in the little window that opens.  Now when 
> you type, it will report the X events in the Konsole window.  I tried it 
> and it reports the key pad key events with the "KP_" prefix.  If this 
> works on yours, then it is probably a Qt bug.
> 

I have a little problem believing it has anything to do with X11.  Most obvious
reason is that both KDE3.5 and Gnome are working just fine here, secondly,
here's one line from xmodmap -pke:

keycode  80 = KP_Up KP_8 KP_Up KP_8 KP_Up KP_8

KDE4.2 thinks this is the "up" key, which helps not at all.  Well, I checked
with xev anyhow, just to satisfy, and it's reporting exactly what xmodmap is,
what kde3.5 is, and what KDE4.2 isn't.

What I can't tell yet is if it's something odd with the FreeBSD implementation,
or just the base KDE4.2.  If you run Linux there, and KDE4.2, you could tell me
that, just make sure you're hitting the 8 key FROM THE nermeic keypad, not the
main keys.  It's the numeric keypad's missing "KP_" that is breaking things here.
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