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Re: Problem with numerical input for certain applications in Cygwin
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: scott Langford <slang at plan9inc dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:25:41 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Problem with numerical input for certain applications in Cygwin
- References: <000001c5f9ef$005b2380$0c01a8c0@Batcave>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, scott Langford wrote:
> I am running Cygwin to ssh onto a Linux server which handles a couple of
> applications that I use for design work. When I run the applications
> there are various fill forms which require numeric entry. For some
> reason I cannot make any numeric input into these forms. The same forms
> have character entry which works fine. I tried the FAQ and users Guide
> but could not find any examples of this exact problem. I have some Linux
> support but that person was basically at a loss. I am not sure where to
> look to correct this problem. When I run directly on my Linux server I
> do not have this problem. I suspect there is some setup in my startx.sh
> file that may help. Any suggestions?
You haven't specified exactly *how* you invoke the applications on Linux,
but I suspect they are X applications and you invoke them via the X
forwarding feature of ssh. This makes your question off-topic for the
main list, and on-topic for the cygwin-xfree list (which the Reply-To of
this message points to). If you aren't using X, please follow-up to the
main list with more details.
As for your problem, in the absense of more information, it looks like
you're seeing weird Num-Lock-related behavior, which is a known problem
with Cygwin/X. Try using the digits above the alphabetical keys instead
of the keypad. I also seem to recall some recipes for making Num-Lock
work properly -- searching the cygwin-xfree archives may help.
Igor
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