XFCE has a GUI settings program I use. Gnome-shell (Fedora's native GUI)
has stuff too.
I think most Linux desktops are self administered & the GUI is ok. I
imagine there are few IT departments managing many (> 50) Linux desktops
like in the days of Unix workstations.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at
A lot of stuff in the UI these days is controlled from the UI (of course
there are also command line tools and such as well). Is there a keyboard or
input settings panel? Pop is based on GNOME, so you may also want to
install GNOME tweaks and look at the settings in there.
-Shawn
On Thu, Dec 22,
This is awesome stuff. Thanks! That Arch Linux link is great. Gives me some
decent reading, and may lead to an answer. I suspect that the mapping is
pointing to the wrong file.
Picked up a thumb drive, so have a couple of things to try, and new stuff to
read.
I'll make a USB boot drive
+1 on the hardware if the keys don't work with the USB keyboard removed.
FWIW, the old Gateway anykey keyboards could remap keys internally. They
stayed mapped even if you plugged it into another system. I had to learn
how to reset them to default.
After that, Arch linux has a great wiki that
If your normal key sequence to get into the BIOS boot menu doesn't even
work, that sounds pretty conclusively like a hardware issue to me. Is it
difficult to swap out the keyboard, in this laptop?
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 19:24 bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net <
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>
Just need to go to a store to pick one up. Yes, I remember using Knoppix CD'S
for checking and sometimes repairing Windows problems, never had to do that for
Linux.
Once I get a thumb drive, I can try a couple of things, including making a live
disk or two.
Laptop is only a few years old,
For sufficiently old fossils, it might be easier to boot from a live CD, if
thumb drives aren't laying around already.
Distinguishing between a failed keyboard and a software misconfiguration
can be helped by seeing the keyboard is not failed under different
software. Knoppix distributions (at
Sounds like a lot of these symptoms could be explained by a failed keyboard.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 16:40 bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net <
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> NumLock doesn't seem to matter. I can't type the letter b, or use a space.
>
> Can't get into BIOS because ESC key
14 laptop keys are inop. All others work and are mapped correctly. I used
their English (US) keyboard. They show keys that are not on my laptop and the
layout is not even close to my laptop keyboard.
There's no gconf on my system. That's more keys than I thought. Could be a
connector, I
NumLock doesn't seem to matter. I can't type the letter b, or use a space.
Can't get into BIOS because ESC key doesn't work, at least with laptop
keyboard.
/etc/default/keyboard states
XKBLAYOUT=us
BACKSPACE=guess
Nothing about how many keys. I have 102 keys on the laptop. The Logitech has
On 2022-12-21 15:32, bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
My laptop keyboard works, at least many of the keys, but some don't.
I would wonder if this could mean your numlock is on -- either on your
external keyboard, or your internal. Either way, I've seen numlock on
laptops turn the
Good idea. I'll have to get a thumb drive to try it out.
I think my fatal mistake was installing pop-os while my Logitech keyboard was
installed. It thinks it's the default keyboard, not the laptop keyboard. At
home, I always have a wireless mouse & keyboard set-up. Going on the road, I
Fossil here, too. I sympathize.
I'm not sure what exact problem you are experiencing, but one way to start
to get a handle on it is to create a USB thumb drive with a "live" version
of one or more other Linux distributions and try booting to it to see
whether they get a reasonable keyboard
Feeling like a bit of a fossil and not knowing what files do what, or
where things are located. Need to fix an obnoxious problem with a
keyboard and realize I just don't know even how to investigate this
anymore. What are recommended sources for a modern overview of system
files, purposes
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