On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Robinson wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > Trying to lock down a RH9 box so that it automatically logs in as a kiosk user and > then starts up a FireFox browser window only (no window manager). I've achieved this > to an extent - The only thing that doesn't work is the keyboard. I can move the > mouse and click on links but I cannot type anything into the browser. > > Is anyone aware of anything screwy with the way X handles the keyboard if there's no > window manager. My memory of the days before gnome and kde were pretty standard was > that the keyboard would still work.
Yes. This is a known bug - I contratc for Red hat and ack when the RHCE involved a multi choice test (using a web browser as the sole app), this bug made itself apparent. Killing X then re-logging in will provide a work around. But check bugzilla to see if there's a fix. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
