Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-22 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
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

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
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

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread 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

[gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
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