Re: X(NumLock)=Mod2 (was Re: Profiler for Mathematica)
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- Subject: [mg36550] Re: [mg36529] X(NumLock)=Mod2 (was Re: Profiler for Mathematica)
- From: jmt <jmt at dxdydz.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:27:32 -0400 (EDT)
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On Unix and Linux, you can also start mathematica with some options : mathematica -primaryModifierMask etc see man mathematica for other (very useful) options On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:27, Scott A Centoni wrote: > > PS: One more quick one: Why does the front end act funny when I have the > > num lock turned on on Linux? (Linux,Athlon, KDE) > > Your X server is set up so that the NumLock key is mapped to Mod2. I > learned by accident that Mod2 is actually quite useful. Mod2-click on a > cell selects all cells of that type in the current notebook. This is an > easy way to delete all the graphics cells and output cells in a notebook to > reduce file size. An annoying aspect is that Mod2-click means press > NumLock, click, then press NumLock again to turn it off. You should be able > to map a different key to Mod2 using xmodmap. Remapping modifier keys in X > is awfully annoying, though. I recommend xkeycaps > (http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/). > > >
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- X(NumLock)=Mod2 (was Re: Profiler for Mathematica)
- From: "Scott A Centoni" <scentoni@hotmail.com>
- X(NumLock)=Mod2 (was Re: Profiler for Mathematica)