BUG: numeric keypad no longer writes keys anymore

[wiiznokes]

I can write numbers in text inputs while holding shift + & for example, but the keypad no longer works (since some time now)

[tg90nor]

I have this issue too. Regardless of numlock state pressing numpad keys results in them functioning as arrow keys. Curiously the number 5 on the numpad works correctly.

[tsimoes79]

i'm experiencing the same issue. I installed numlockx and its status respect the keyboard leds. If numlock led is on, which means that I manually enable Numlock, it returns ON. The other way around works fine too.
But, mainly in the terminal, it works as arrows except number 5.
Absolutely the same problem.

[snyluc13]

Same issue here with wired reddragon keyboard

[Nashenas88]

I bisected this on cosmic-term and found it's between commits 100f75f and 47ba123. I'm still trying to narrow down further.

[Nashenas88]

I tracked it down to commit 0491c4b which also includes an update to iced. iced was updated from pop-os/iced@0619950 to pop-os/iced@f2f9dfc. Unfortunately, there's ~42,000 lines changed between those two versions. I think it has something to do with the update to using winit events for the key events, but still not clear.

[Nashenas88]

After digging further it seems that the libcosmic update broke backwards compatibility and apps need to be updated. The value that used to be relied on, key, was moved to modified_key. Now the key value represents the typical value of the keyboard key without any modifiers. So when pressing on a numpad key now, you'll get the following structs:

[2025-01-08T06:46:02Z WARN  cosmic_term::terminal_box] got KeyPressed { key: Named(ArrowLeft), modified_key: Character("4"), physical_key: Code(Numpad4), location: Numpad, modifiers: Modifiers(0x0), text: Some("4") }
[2025-01-08T06:46:06Z WARN  cosmic_term::terminal_box] got KeyPressed { key: Named(ArrowRight), modified_key: Character("6"), physical_key: Code(Numpad6), location: Numpad, modifiers: Modifiers(0x0), text: Some("6") }

cosmic-term and other apps were written to only look at key, and were not updated when modified_key was added and the behavior changed.

I found a simple workaround that I think works for cosmic-term by just checking whether the named_key == modified_key, but I'm not sure if that will work for every other app.

[Quackdoc]

cosmic-edit is effected as well.