I have just reimaged my machine from SuSe 10.1 to Fedora 11. My old version of X (from SuSe) was probably 6.9.0. My new version of X (from Fedora) is xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.3-4.fc11.
I have two USB keyboards plugged into my machine. With my old installation I used to be able to combine a modifier key from one keyboard with a regular key from the other. For example I could press shift on the left keyboard and ¨a¨ on the right keyboard, and the result would be upper-case¨A¨ (exactly the same as if I pressed shift and ¨a¨ both on the right keyboard). After installing Fedora 11, this works properly in a text-only console (e.g. after pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2), but it doesn´t work properly in the GUI. What happens is that the first key stroke using a new modifier lacks that modifier. Subsequent key strokes do include the modifier. For example, if I hold down Shift and ¨a¨ repeatedly, I get aAAAAAAAAA (so the first ¨a¨ is lower case). Since this still works correctly in a text console, I've concluded that the upgrade of X is the most likely explanation for this problem. I've tried multiple environments (KDE, GNOME) and the problem doesn't go away, This is driving me nuts because I am used to using two separate keyboards, one for each hand. Does anyone have any ideas on how to debug or fix this? Even a clue as to how to debug X's handling of modifier keys would be very welcome! Cheers David _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
