FVWM: Very strange binding issue

[Dominique Michel]

With fvwm-crystal, I get a very strange issue.

Key KP_multiply A M

is assigned to the Fullscreen function. When Numpad is on and I press
this key combination, I get a lot of garbage on the console, when the
console have the focus. By examining this garbage, it appear it is the
result of 'ls /usr/bin', but on one huge line with only the filenames
separated by the space character.

How can such a thing be possible?

Dominique

[Dan Espen]

Post by Dominique Michel
With fvwm-crystal, I get a very strange issue.
Key KP_multiply A M
is assigned to the Fullscreen function. When Numpad is on and I press
this key combination, I get a lot of garbage on the console, when the
console have the focus. By examining this garbage, it appear it is the
result of 'ls /usr/bin', but on one huge line with only the filenames
separated by the space character.
How can such a thing be possible?

Doesn't sound like Fvwm.
It sounds like your console is programmed to behave that way.
Which console is this and does it have special key bindings?

[Dominique Michel]

Le Mon, 13 May 2013 10:24:43 -0400,

Post by Dan Espen

Post by Dominique Michel
With fvwm-crystal, I get a very strange issue.
Key KP_multiply A M
is assigned to the Fullscreen function. When Numpad is on and I
press this key combination, I get a lot of garbage on the console,
when the console have the focus. By examining this garbage, it
appear it is the result of 'ls /usr/bin', but on one huge line with
only the filenames separated by the space character.
How can such a thing be possible?

Doesn't sound like Fvwm.
It sounds like your console is programmed to behave that way.
Which console is this and does it have special key bindings?

It is urxvt. And you are right. I done more search, and find in urxvt
FAQ, that some Debian users have similar problems. But the proposed
answer didn't work for me. I done more search and rtfm. After some try
and retry, I was able reassign this binding in ~/.Xdefaults:

URxvt.keysym.M-N-KP_Multiply: command:

Now, I can even assign this binding in fvwm and it work.
I did send a mail to urxvt author with my solution, so he can
eventually update the FAQ.
.
Dominique