Scroll Lock in XFCE will not switch KVM

[Tim]

On 12/01/12 00:54, Todd Pytel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I switched to XFCE recently after the frustration of trying to work
> under the new GNOME. Generally, everything is super. But I do have one
> fairly significant issue - Scroll Lock will no longer switch my KVM like
> it used to. I have a StarTech KVM that, like most KVM's, uses double
> Scroll Lock taps to signal a switch. This often required some puttering
> to enable in GNOME. It was often fixable by adding "mod3 = Scroll_Lock"
> using xmodmap. In a recent GNOME, that didn't work, but it did still
> work using NumLock, which was just as good. But in XFCE, neither Scroll
> Lock nor Num Lock will switch the KVM at all, with or without the
> xmodmap tweak. The status LED's will turn on/off, but they don't trigger
> the KVM. The KVM also still works properly if I Ctrl-Alt-F1 out to a
> console. But in X under XFCE, they don't work properly. The keypress
> does register in xev output as well. While this seems somewhat obscure,
> it's actually a pretty significant usability issue for me, as I'm
> frequently switching between machines and I can't easily reach the
> hardware switch on the KVM.
>
> Any insight out there as to why XFCE is interfering with this behavior?
> I've never quite understood what the xmodmap tweak was actually doing at
> the OS level, so if anyone understands that part and has some
> explanation or links, that would also be helpful place for me to start
> figuring this out.
>
> Thanks!
> Todd
>
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Hi Todd

I have exactly the same problem with my KVM (Avocent) and to be honest 
any suggestion for resolving this issue have been non existent. You 
don't say what distribution you are running (Debian in my case).

I will watch with interest

Tim