På 2005-12-23, skrev Hookand Crook: > Thanks. Followed your instructions, Henry. > > Typing control-alt-F1 BEFORE log-in brought up the screen as you > described in #2. He logged in, received the shell prompt and the > keyboard worked as it should. > > Typing control-alt-F1 AFTER log-in took him to his regular desktop and > the keyboard did not function. > > > Kim
Okay, this confirms that the regular desktop is X, started by a session manager. I will explain since you said that you are very new to Linux. Virtually all Linux systems are set up with six virtual consoles, which are text windows that (usually) do not display any graphics but allow a single login to a shell. These are accesses using the left alt key together with F1, F2, etc, ... F6. The graphical interface runs on a seperate graphics console, which you can think of as number seven because you can switch to it from one of the six text consoles using alt-F7. A session manager starts the graphical desktop (X) automatically and many systems comes this way. When you are in X you need to use control-alt-F<n> to switch consoles; alt-F<n> alone does not work. The text-mode virtual consoles use the console keyboard driver, which is seperate from the keyboard driver used by X. Is there a file called .Xkeymap or something similar in his home directory? This is a typical location for a custom keymap modifying the operation of the X keyboard driver. You can find it using "ls -A" from a shell prompt, which shows the hidden files that start with a dot. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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