Mark Healey staggered into the Black Sun and said: > I have an IBM 84 key space saver keyboard. It has "Num Lock" on the > fore edge of the back space key. I assume that this was so you could > toggle number locking by chording the backspace key with something and > use the labeled querty keys as a numeric keypad. I don't think that > this was done in hardware and there is no option for this keyboard in > any of the configuration programs. Fire up xev and take a look at the keycodes reported when you push {various modifiers}+BkSpace. IBM Thinkpads use a strange keycode for NumLock; Shift+ScrollLock produces keycode 77, which you have to xmodmap to NumLock. > I'd like to make one but can't figure out how to use xmodmap to do so. > What I'd like to do is set it up so that the right alt key chorded > with backspace toggles number locking. If something (shift or alt) together with backspace produces a keycode different from the normal backspace keycode, all you should have to do is find that keycode and do "xmodmap -e 'keycode NN = NumLock' ". Once you've figured that out, have something that runs at your WM/DE startup execute that xmodmap command. > Once I've done that I'd like to have the "U" key input a 4, the "I" > key input a 5, etc when number locking is on. This should happen automagically if the keyboard's behaving properly. At least it did on all the Thinkpads with NumLock that I've had. -- You have me mixed up with more creative ways of being stupid. --MegaHAL, trained on random gibberish Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see