mod events not reaching xmonad

Hello, I have a problem. Often, after a while of using OpenOffice with xmonad mod key events no longer get to xmonad. When this happens I'm forced to switch to a console and killall xmonad loosing all non-saved work in the process. I've also seen this using other applications like Firefox for example. What can be causing this and do other people have the same problems? regards, Bas van Dijk P.S. I run the latest xmonad

It seems like I've located the problem. Because I was doing some numeric input in OpenOffice Calc I enabled num-lock. This seems to change to modMask. So the "solution" is to disable num-lock before giving xmonad commands. However this is not a very user friendly solution. Bas

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:04:18 +0200
"Bas van Dijk"
It seems like I've located the problem. Because I was doing some numeric input in OpenOffice Calc I enabled num-lock. This seems to change to modMask.
So the "solution" is to disable num-lock before giving xmonad commands. However this is not a very user friendly solution.
xmonad does attempt to ignore numlockMask, but this value is not the same on all systems. We're still looking for a more robust solution to this. Spencer Janssen

sjanssen:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:04:18 +0200 "Bas van Dijk"
wrote: It seems like I've located the problem. Because I was doing some numeric input in OpenOffice Calc I enabled num-lock. This seems to change to modMask.
So the "solution" is to disable num-lock before giving xmonad commands. However this is not a very user friendly solution.
xmonad does attempt to ignore numlockMask, but this value is not the same on all systems. We're still looking for a more robust solution to this.
Do we do everything dwm does wrt. numLock? If not, we'll have to document this for 0.1 at least. -- Don

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:04:18 +0200
"Bas van Dijk"
It seems like I've located the problem. Because I was doing some numeric input in OpenOffice Calc I enabled num-lock. This seems to change to modMask.
So the "solution" is to disable num-lock before giving xmonad commands. However this is not a very user friendly solution.
For now, you can find the value of your numlock mask with xev, and change the numlockMask in Config.hs Spencer Janssen
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Bas van Dijk
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dons@cse.unsw.edu.au
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Spencer Janssen