On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 20:37, steve wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 20:03, James M0TJC wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Bit of a strange one this....
> >
> > I've just gone up to 2006 (clean install from ftp server), and I am
> > having a keyboard related problem.
> >
> > Every now and again, it goes all daft on me, and su root will look like
> > ssssuu
> > rrrrrrrrrroooooott...... although, if I try to delete letters, then
> > one press of the backspace key will delete the whole lot!!
> >
> > It will do it totally at random, and no matter what program I am using at
> > the time, be it Konsole, Firefox, Kmail and so forth..... The only way to
> > stop it, is to reboot.
> >
> > I have tried 3 different keyboards, all with the same result. I have
> > booted into Windows (on the same drive), and nothing happens there
> > either.
> >
> > To top it off, I'm currently logged into KDE as root (urpmi'ing some
> > stuff), and it is working fine.... but the moment I log in as me, it
> > happens again!!
> >
> > Strange!
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James
>
> How about renaming the .kde directory for the affected user so that it gets
> recreated anew. If that doesn't fix it you can always bring it back.
Hmm....
Well, I am writing this from within root GUI, but I opened up a Konsole, and
SU'd to my username, and typed kmail.....
Everything is still working ok, even when I SU to myself from root, if you
know what I mean!
I'll try renaming the .kde folder, and see how I get on.
Cheers,
James
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