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secretrobotron

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Registered: 2010-04-11

Posts: 47

PgUp/PgDown Broken after upgrade

After doing an upgrade (pacman -Syu), I can no longer use the following keys on my keyboard without unappreciated consequences:
- PgUp
- PgDown
- now, apparently, the Left arrow

When I use xev, I get two separate events for every one real keyboard event, with two keycodes.

For example, this is what happens when I press PgUp:

KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
    root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 1850204, (679,556), root:(680,571),
    state 0x0, keycode 112 (keysym 0xffaf, KP_Divide), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2f) "/"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2f) "/"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
    root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 1850204, (679,556), root:(680,571),
    state 0x0, keycode 99 (keysym 0xff55, Prior), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

MappingNotify event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
    root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 1850306, (679,556), root:(680,571),
    state 0x0, keycode 112 (keysym 0xffaf, KP_Divide), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2f) "/"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

MappingNotify event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
    root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 1850306, (679,556), root:(680,571),
    state 0x0, keycode 99 (keysym 0xff55, Prior), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

I've checked xmodmap -pke, but I have no idea what it means:

keycode  99 = Prior NoSymbol Prior
keycode 112 = KP_Divide XF86_Ungrab KP_Divide XF86_Ungrab

Any help would be appreciated. Needless to say, this is pretty annoying when I'm trying to edit code and it searches my document instead of scrolling up, or capitalizes words (some vim feature I had previously never known about, and will most likely never use).

secretrobotron

Member

Registered: 2010-04-11

Posts: 47

Re: PgUp/PgDown Broken after upgrade

Ah, yes. And these keys work just as they should when I'm not in X.