On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:52:56AM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Can anyone explain the following puzzling behaviour?
I bought a USB keypad for some computer phobic people to use. Its a wonderful little thing, but it has one potentially confusing thing: a 000 key, right in the middle at the bottom. This records 000 in either a terminal or in an application. They have no use for 000.
OK, lets just disable it. First thing was to run xev and find out what the keycode is. It is 90. Great, now lets find out what 0 is, and remap. Guess what, 0 is 90 as well!
So, how on earth, if they are sending the same keycode, does one send 000 and the other just 0?
And how do I map it so that they both send the same thing?
The results from xev, both depression and release, seem to be absolutely identical for both keys, to the letter. Sure someone will understand what is happening, but it baffles me.
Is it possible that the 000 key is sending three keypresses in quick succession?