ottomeister wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ken Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We are having a problem with the left shift key running SRS on Ubuntu 8.04.
The left shift key is unresponsive although the right shift key is ok.
Something in your desktop has preempted events from that key,
probably with the intention of using it as a "shortcut" or"launcher"
key for some desktop activity. We've seen this with Gnome on
SLES 10.
It seems insane to be using a Shift key for this purpose so I
suspect that the root cause is some bug in the desktop. It wouldn't
be the first time we've seen the desktop make the incorrect
assumption every X server in the world is being driven by a PC
keyboard.
There's probably some sort of control panel that will tell you what
keys your desktop has tied to particular desktop activities. Look
in there for some function that has been bound to the Left Shift key,
and either remove that binding or rebind it to some more sensible
key.
If you do find that binding then it would be helpful to know what
desktop you're using and what that binding was. On SLES 10
Gnome I think it was tied to some kind of "Desktop Search"
function.
OttoM.
This doesn't seem to be a key binding problem, at least not completely.
If I login on the console with a type 6, no problem. If I login with a
Sunray using the same type 6, I get the left shift problem. Same id,
same bindings (at least from what gnome-keybinding-properties shows).
From the console xmodmap -pk shows:
There are 6 KeySyms per KeyCode; KeyCodes range from 8 to 255.
KeyCode Keysym (Keysym) ...
Value Value (Name) ...
8
9 0xff1b (Escape)
10 0x0031 (1) 0x0021 (exclam)
11 0x0032 (2) 0x0040 (at)
12 0x0033 (3) 0x0023 (numbersign)
13 0x0034 (4) 0x0024 (dollar)
...
50 0xffe1 (Shift_L)
51 0x005c (backslash) 0x007c (bar)
52 0x007a (z) 0x005a (Z)
53 0x0078 (x) 0x0058 (X)
54 0x0063 (c) 0x0043 (C)
55 0x0076 (v) 0x0056 (V)
56 0x0062 (b) 0x0042 (B)
57 0x006e (n) 0x004e (N)
58 0x006d (m) 0x004d (M)
59 0x002c (comma) 0x003c (less)
60 0x002e (period) 0x003e (greater)
61 0x002f (slash) 0x003f (question)
62 0xffe2 (Shift_R)
...
From the Sunray, xmodmap -pk shows:
There are 4 KeySyms per KeyCode; KeyCodes range from 8 to 235.
KeyCode Keysym (Keysym) ...
Value Value (Name) ...
8 0x0061 (a) 0x0041 (A)
9 0x0062 (b) 0x0042 (B)
10 0x0063 (c) 0x0043 (C)
11 0x0064 (d) 0x0044 (D)
12 0x0065 (e) 0x0045 (E) 0x20ac (EuroSign)
13 0x0066 (f) 0x0046 (F)
14 0x0067 (g) 0x0047 (G)
15 0x0068 (h) 0x0048 (H)
...
228 0xffe3 (Control_L)
229 0xffe1 (Shift_L)
230 0xffe9 (Alt_L)
231 0xffe7 (Meta_L)
232
233 0xffe2 (Shift_R)
234 0xff7e (Mode_switch)
235 0xffe8 (Meta_R)
gnome-keyboard-properties has a layout tab, which has a keyboard model
field. On the console this comes up "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC" on the
Sunray it comes up "Unknown".
It's possible that its a binding problem at some different level than
gnome, but I don't understand why the keyboard comes up so differently
from a Sunray and the console.
_______________________________________________
SunRay-Users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
