Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 16:58:25 schrieb YoYo Siska: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate it again (or switch the language back and forth). Then it works again. What about a simple setxkbmap us? (or other layout you are using) Does that help? (You might need to emerge setxkbmap... ;) It helps too. Thanks, Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 10:27:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:56:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc. i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the keyboard grabbing is affecting x -question mark- however closing both vnc and vmware don't fix it... I've had this happen from time to time, and always when using VMware (I rarely use VNC). As with you, quitting VMware doesn't help, only logging out and back in. I've no idea if the desktop is relevant, I'm using KDE. I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate it again (or switch the language back and forth). Then it works again. Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:56:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc. i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the keyboard grabbing is affecting x -question mark- however closing both vnc and vmware don't fix it... I've had this happen from time to time, and always when using VMware (I rarely use VNC). As with you, quitting VMware doesn't help, only logging out and back in. I've no idea if the desktop is relevant, I'm using KDE. -- Neil Bothwick Did you sleep well? No, I made a couple of mistakes. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
Hello On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:56:12PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: apologies for the all-lowercase and other features of this email - but therein lies my problem -exclamation mark- from time to time x will just pretend that the caps lock, shift, and alt keys have dropped off the face of the earth... this means i can't copy n paste, i can't type email address, i can't switch consoles, i can't use any keyboard shortcuts rendering most programs useless... as has happened now, as you can tell by the lack of uppercase, smileys, etc in this email... Well, I had this problem (and still, in some less drastic way, have). It ignored all modificators from time to time (depends if the X started OK or it had a bad mood). It started with 1.4 xorg and it seems to be a little better now (shift works every time now for me). Something similar is in the bugzilla both at gentoo and in the upstream. If it is possible for you, you might try downgrading to 1.3, but they say they fixed it upstream, so it might come soon to gentoo as well. -- The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer. Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgphRUh2nGsSS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate it again (or switch the language back and forth). Then it works again. What about a simple setxkbmap us? (or other layout you are using) Does that help? (You might need to emerge setxkbmap... ;) yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys
hi all, apologies for the all-lowercase and other features of this email - but therein lies my problem -exclamation mark- from time to time x will just pretend that the caps lock, shift, and alt keys have dropped off the face of the earth... this means i can't copy n paste, i can't type email address, i can't switch consoles, i can't use any keyboard shortcuts rendering most programs useless... as has happened now, as you can tell by the lack of uppercase, smileys, etc in this email... using xev, the keypresses are definitely still getting through and recognised as the right keys. my laptop keyboard or a usb keyboard do the same thing. if i switch to a vt by using `sudo chvt 2` then i can use shift, etc again. i can even ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to x, but then i can't use ctrl-alt to get away again. the only thing that solves it is logging out and restarting x. which is sometimes not possible for a while when i'm in the middle of flashing firmware on a device... the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc. i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the keyboard grabbing is affecting x -question mark- however closing both vnc and vmware don't fix it... well, i sure would appreciate any hints... thanks -smile- -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Our sires' age was worse that our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
