> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 at 9:14 PM
> From: stan <stanl-fedorauser(a)vfemail.net>
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: KP_end
>
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 17:14:22 +0100
> "Patrick Dupre" <pdupre(a)gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In fedora 24, I observe a different behavior than under fc22.
> > I am using a french keyboard (alternative)
> > The key "page down" generates a KP_End
> > and the key "page up" generates a KP_Home
> > while "end" generates a End
> > and "home" generates a Home
> > I would have expect a KP_Prior or a KP_Next.
> >
> > When a make a man
> > the key "page down" and "end" give the same result: End
> > the key "page up" and "home" give the same result: Home
> >
> > It means that I do not have any page up or page down with man.
> > Also, the numerical pad does not help either because the KP_Prior
> > does the same as a Home, and KP_Next does a End
> >
> > Any clue?
>
> It sounds like the keyboard mapping was altered via a cut and paste,
> and it wasn't edited. That is, there is an error in the keymapping.
> Is there another independent French keymapping you can try? If so,
> try it and see if the pgup and pgdown keys work as expected.
>
> The keymaps are located in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. After a
> quick look, I think your problem resides in the keypad file. But
> there are lots of nested includes there, so you'll have to do any
> further search. You should open a bugzilla if you find the
> problem, which is probably duplicate assigned keys.
>
> fr: include "keypad(oss)"
> fr: include "keypad(oss_latin9)"
On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 21:44:49 +0100
"Patrick Dupre" <pdupre(a)gmx.com> wrote:
Thank,
It works a lot better with legacy, alternative.
Then I think you should open a bugzilla against xkeyboard-config,
putting in the information from your original post, and the fact that
the french legacy keymapping doesn't have the problem. That will
flag that a fix of the alternative version is needed.