Sounds like a bug in X.
And yes there are now community resources for scrotwm at:
http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/ScrotwmOn Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:45:32PM -0700, Aaron Stellman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure if there is a better place to contact someone regarding
> scrotwm; but I'll give it a shot here.
>
> Running scrotwm, built from cvs (scrotwm.c,v 1.302 2010/09/16).
> Using a default modkey, which happens to be left alt. When I start
> scrotwm, and have my numlock on, modkey doesn't work. It works fine with
> numlock off. Yet, if I restart scrotwm using a sighup signal, modkey
> starts to work with both numlock on and off. There is no difference in
> xev(1) output from modkey+j with both numlock on and off.
>
> Is that a feature/bug/sideeffect?
>
