Debian Bug report logs - #173314
xbase-clients: [xcalc] should accept digits from the alphabetic part of the keyboard

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Louis-David Mitterrand <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: xbase-clients: xcalc only accepts digits from the numeric pad

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:21:04 +0100

Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.2.1-4
Severity: normal


On my french keyboard xcalc only accepts input from the numeric pad.
Digits keyed from the main keyboard are ignored. Gnomecalc doesn't have
this limitation.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux styx 2.4.20styx #1 Wed Dec 4 19:51:21 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro

Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp                       2:2.95.4-17    The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  debconf                   1.2.20         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.1-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdps1                   4.2.1-4        Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.3-1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                   4.2.1-4        X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibmesa3 [libgl1]        4.2.1-4        XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphic
ii  xlibs                     4.2.1-4        X Window System client libraries

-- no debconf information


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Message #22 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: xcalc only accepts digits from the numeric pad

Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 14:12:28 -0800

This is because the key mappings in the translation list in app-defaults
only list the main set of number keys with a modifier of "None", so they
don't work when NumLock is active.  We can't remove that modifier since
then holding down shift and hitting one of them would enter the number
instead of doing the intended operation (!, *, (, or ) for instance).

Instead I've submitted a merge request upstream to add translations for
those keys with Mod2 (aka NumLock) in the modifier list - you should be
able to edit the XCalc app-defaults file on your system to do the same
until a new release is published:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xcalc/-/merge_requests/11

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        -Alan Coopersmith-                 [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris

Message #27 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: xcalc only accepts digits from the numeric pad

Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 10:56:09 -0700

This should be fixed now in the new upstream xcalc-1.1.2 release.

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        -Alan Coopersmith-                 [email protected]
         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris

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