Re: XForms: Function Keys in Fdesign

Trent Piepho (xyzzy@u.washington.edu)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:09:49 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual pagxyzzy@u.washington.edu

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Trent Piepho <xyzzy@u.washington.edu> :

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, John Culleton wrote:
> Yes I restarted. Also, later on I was in gvim (descended from vim,
> descended from vi) and hit
> F1. A help screen popped up. In fdesign this key does nothing. Some
> others work, such as F10 and F5-F6. But not F1. Is a puzzlement. If I
> had an xwindow configuration problem of any sort F1 should not work for
> gvim either. Does F1 work for you?

Are you sure your function keys aren't remapped?

Try running xev and see what the F1 key is mapped to. On some systems, like
suns, the F1 key is mapped to Help and some of the other function keys are
different things.

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