Re: XForms: Function Keys in Fdesign

John Culleton (john@ccpl.carr.lib.md.us)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:39:55 -0500

# To subscribers of the xforms list from John Culleton <john@ccpl.carr.lib.md.us> :

Trent Piepho wrote:
>
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Trent Piepho <xyzzy@u.washington.edu> :
> . 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.
>
> _________________________________________________
>
Bingo! Somewhere in the bowels of Xwindow F1 is mapped to Help (not in
keysym.h or keysymdef.h, I looked.)

Now, is there a way to unmap it without recompiling the whole XFree86
system?

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