Re: numpad doesnt seem to send kp events in wayland

[Arsen Arsenović]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Hello,
>
> I used to use a numpad to bind to do things in emacs.
>
> This used to work really well on the i3wm window manager and a gtk emacs
> build.
>
> Then I bought a nice new framework laptop which has a hidpi screen, so I
> switched to using the sway wm, and emacs-pgtk.
>
> Now the numpad no longer sends keypad events in a way that emacs
> recognizes, instead just plain numbers are received.
>
> for some reason i3 wont work anymore so I dont have anything to compare
> with.
>
> Is this just me or is this a well known problem?
>
> below is an example of the code I use, but normally I just test with c-h
> k to see which key emacs receives.
>
> I also tried xev, and there it seems I get kp events, at least under
> xwayland I guess.
>
> (define-key cider-mode-map (kbd "<kp-enter>") 'sylt-stop)
> (define-key cider-mode-map (kbd "<kp-separator>") 'sylt-play-metro)
>
> (defmacro sylt-song-event-map-key (key num)
>   `(define-key cider-mode-map (kbd ,key)
>                (lambda  () (interactive)   (cider-nrepl-sync-request:eval  
> ,(concat "(sylt.core/song-event \"" num "\")")))))
>
>
>
> (sylt-song-event-map-key "<kp-0>" "init")
> (sylt-song-event-map-key "<kp-1>" "1")

FWIW, you can try checking against https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev and
WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 instead of xev to check whether there's matching
keycodes.

I don't have a keypad to test with right now but I suspect something can
be arranged for your case.  Consider (read-key) also as a test.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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