<div dir="ltr">The culprit was Oracle VirtualBox. Nothing wrong with Linux. Just don't expect Linux to behave completely normally when in a VM. This is one example of a subtle issue.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:19 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <<a href="mailto:sreyan32@gmail.com">sreyan32@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am having a hard time in i3 setting the numpad options to microsoft.</div><div><br></div><div>So I am running these commands:</div><div><br></div><div>> setxkbmap -option</div><div><br></div><div>This is to delete the options set.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I am running:</div><div><br></div><div>> setxkbmap -option numpad:microsoft</div><div><br></div><div>This actually runs successfully since the output of <br></div><div><br></div><div>> setxkbmap -print -verbose 10</div><div><br></div><div>is:</div><div><br></div><div>Setting verbose level to 10<br>locale is C<br>Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...<br>Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...<br>Success.<br>Applied rules from evdev:<br>rules: evdev<br>model: pc105<br>layout: us<br>options: numpad:microsoft<br>Trying to build keymap using the following components:<br>keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)<br>types: complete+numpad(microsoft)<br>compat: complete<br>symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev)<br>geometry: pc(pc105)<br>xkb_keymap {<br> xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };<br> xkb_types { include "complete+numpad(microsoft)" };<br> xkb_compat { include "complete" };<br> xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" };<br> xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };<br>};</div><div><br></div><div>Yet when I Press Shift+KP_1 (NumLock ON) I get KP_1 and not KP_End.</div><div><br></div><div>The changes seem to have no effect whatsoever.<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<div>Sreyan Chakravarty</div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<div>Sreyan Chakravarty</div></div></div>