Jerome Yuzyk posted on Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:54:45 -0600 as excerpted: > KDE 4.6.5 on Fedora 15
Thanks. A lot of folks forget to include that info. > Alt-Tab (and Alt-F2) suddenly stopped working. I have no idea what I > did. > > How do I restart them? Possibilities: 1) Are you sure the alt-key on your keyboard is still working? I've had keys quit working before... It's easy enough to test as part of the second possibility, however. 2) The keyboard shortcuts may have been changed. Try kde settings (labeled system settings even tho they're mostly kde, not system, but anyway...), common appearance and behavior, shortcuts and gestures, global keyboard shortcuts. Once there, change the dropdown to kwin, and look at the walk thru windows related settings. You can change a setting by clicking on it, then on custom, then on the configure button beside it, which will then take input. If it's already set there but you want to test your keys for #1, try clicking on one without a shortcut (so you don't mess up an existing setting). You can hit alt, ctrl, win, shift, as modifiers, and they'll show up on the button, waiting for the key that's to be modified. If alt doesn't show up when you hit it, kde's not sensing the alt-key any longer. Probably either a broken keyboard or a changed X keyboard mapping. 3) You can actually see what X is detecting by installing if necessary, then running from a konsole window, a little applet called xev. When it's active, any key you press or any mouse movement should generate output in the konsole window you ran it from, telling you what X detected. If you press the alt key, you should see the output with the keyboard mapping for the alt key, etc. 4) It's possible you activated the international settings. In particular, with some mappings, the right alt key is remapped to different functionality. That's why on some keyboards it's labeled AltGr or similar. I've never messed with that so can't describe it, but have read about it. Xev will let you see what the system says the keys are outputting, tho, and you can compare what it says about the left and right alt keys. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
