From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: When using the Linux console (VTs) directly (and on other PC OSs), one can press the ALT key, then type a decimal number on the keypad. That number will be "translated" encoded into a byte, and treated as if the user had pressed a key generating that ASCII value. For example, pressing ALT+48 would act as if "0" had been typed. This feature does not appear to work under X, at least when editing a document using vi within a "GNOME Terminal" session, or when running XEmacs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a GNOME terminal app 2. Press and hold ALT 3. Type 48 on the numeric keypad 4. Release ALT Actual Results: "48" appears in the terminal window. Expected Results: "0" should appear in the terminal window. 48 is the decimal ASCII code for "0". Additional info:
This is not an xorg-x11 bug. GNOME has a similar ability by pressing the right key combinations however. If you would like to see Xorg have such a feature natively, file an enhancement request in X.Org bugzilla, located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org and X.Org developers will review your request. If someone decides to implement this feature directly into X.Org after you file your request, it will be available in a future version of the X Window System. Setting status to "NOTABUG"
OK. so what are the "right key combinations"? Why wouldn't GNOME just use the existing standards that have been around for many, many, years?
> OK. so what are the "right key combinations"? The GNOME documentation might provide this information, however if you aren't able to find it in the docs, you might find fedora-list to be of assistance, or one of the public GNOME mailing lists or IRC forums. >Why wouldn't GNOME just use the existing standards that have been around for >many, many, years? One of the GNOME development forums provided by the GNOME project might be able to answer that for you.