Why does X11 generate an extra SHIFT when I press Shift+KP_1 ?

Sreyan Chakravarty sreyan32 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 18 18:56:17 UTC 2020


Yes Andreas, you are absolutely right.
Thank you so much for your help. In my defense I never knew VirtualBox
could stab you in the back like this. I guess you learn something new every
day. I just wish I hadn't bothered all of you.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:21 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry to have been a bother. I have inadvertently solved my own issue. And
> the issue was Oracle VirtualBox. I am writing this from a live boot on
> Manjaro i3 and everything works as expected. No weird or mysterious
> keystrokes in xev. Thank you for all you help. I am sorry to have bothered
> you with this.
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:15 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > -- some keyboard switching applet, that uses XTest to do that.
>>
>> I doubt that this some application running in the background because I
>> have faced this problem on MX Linux XFCE, Fedora KDE, Manjaro KDE, Manjaro
>> KDE.
>>
>> There is one detail that I have left out and I don't see how that can
>> affect anything ----- I am running in VirtualBox. All these OSes I have
>> tested in Oracle VirtualBox, my host OS is Windows 8.1 which handles
>> Shift+KP_1 with numlock on perfectly.
>>
>> So the question is that is there any way VirtualBox can be causing this,
>> I don't think it is interfering but you be the judge of that.
>>
>> > -- some strange intellectual behaviour of the hardware (keyboard
>> itself).
>>
>> I hope not. Windows seems to handle this perfectly.
>>
>> Output of  :
>> xkbcomp "$DISPLAY" /tmp/dump.xkb
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/trELUzsP
>>
>> It is 1912 lines so I used pastebin.
>>
>> Please let me know if you find anything.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:22 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If I print my current layout can you help me with the rules that are set
>>> for the numpad?
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 12:19 pm Sreyan Chakravarty, <sreyan32 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So what do I do now? Where do I report a bug?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020, 1:17 am James Cloos, <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> yes, for that kb it prob is not any of the weird hw things i've
>>>>> encountered.
>>>>>
>>>>> not sure why it could do that, then...
>>>>>
>>>>> -JimC
>>>>> --
>>>>> James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sreyan Chakravarty
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sreyan Chakravarty
>


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Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
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