Scroll Lock Doesn't Work

DrJohn · 03-10-2007, 12:35 AM

All this is new to me since four days ago.
Puppy works well except scroll lock is de-activated, pressing the key doesn't work. I do a lot of spreadsheet work and would like to have this on. My old ms-dos work-around, hold down the left shift while entering numbers on the numeric pad works, but I would rather have scroll lock on. Any ideas?

Xian · 03-10-2007, 01:13 AM

How is your keyboard identified in xorg.conf?

DrJohn · 03-10-2007, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xian

How is your keyboard identified in xorg.conf?

How would I learn this? And what difference would it make?

GuestToo · 03-10-2007, 11:04 PM

you can enable the scroll lock key by typing:

xmodmap -pm

to find an unused modifier ... on my machine, mod3 is free
to set up the scroll lock key on mod3, you can type:

xmodmap -e 'add mod3 = Scroll_Lock'

now the scroll lock key should work
but i don't know if Gnumeric will ignore it or not

you can put this line in the hidden file /root/.Xmodmap (create the file if it does not exist) to enable the scroll lock key every time X starts:

add mod3 = Scroll_Lock

achim_59 · 04-26-2009, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by GuestToo

you can enable the scroll lock key by typing:

...

you can put this line in the hidden file /root/.Xmodmap (create the file if it does not exist) to enable the scroll lock key every time X starts:

add mod3 = Scroll_Lock

The stated command does indeed work (thanks for the tip!) but the addition of a hidden /root/.Xmodmap doesn't work in Ubuntu 8.10. I'm guessing that is because there is no root user as such, since root privileges can only be accessed through "sudo" (or "su" if you've set up a root password), i.e. one cannot login as root directly.

Until I've located an appropriate place for the command, I'm keeping it in a bash script in my ~/bin.

achim_59