[solved] Keyboard partially not working in enlightenment

relkai · Last edited by relkai on Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:51 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi Guys and Gals,

This is a really strange problem and again I'm very sure that I misconfigured anything.

The background:
I've got a headless server to which I only connect using SSH and VNC (for the few mandatory GUIs like mythtv-setup).
Until now I used iceWM for VNC because it's small and lightning fast.
After many years using iceWM I just don't like the minimalistic interface anymore and decided to give enlightenment/e17 a shot.
It really looks modern and stylish without eating up too much resources.

The problem:
Some of my keys aren't working in enlightenment.
For example if I start xterm and try to type anything, some keys just don't do anything.

The following keys are working:
qetzuopghjycvbüöä1234567890ß´,.-#+

These keys aren't working:
wriasdfklxnm

If I switch VNC back to iceWM, all keys are working again in xterm.

The most strange thing:
If I hold the "Alt" key pressed while using the non working keys, all characters are being typed correctly.

To my understanding, there can't be a problem with my VNC or Xorg configs, otherwise I should have the same problem in iceWM.
In enlightenment I selected the german keyboard layout and also tried to change some options using setxkbmap, but nothing seems to solve this issue.

Google also isn't very helpful and I seem to be the only one with this kind of problem.

Thanks,
relkai
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Sansavarous · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 22 Location: My computer.

What do you have set for your keyboard in E?
Main menu->Settings->All->Input->Keyboard

relkai · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:04 pm Post subject:

It's set to the following:
- Configuration: de (default, basic)
- Model: Automatic (already tried different layouts like "pc102", "pc104" or "pc105"
- Options: None activated
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Sansavarous · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 22 Location: My computer.

Check your Xserver config to be sure that you're using the same keyboard layout under "InputDevice" and what your xmodmaps are.
Also check your locale settings in xterm and what TERM is set to. echo $TERM
Might be good to read up on man infocmp and man locale and of course man xterm

relkai · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:20 pm Post subject:

My xorg.conf is set to "pc105". Therefore I already tried to manually set this layout in E.
The locale is set to de_DE and I ran locale-gen, of course:

relkai · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:51 am Post subject:

Finally I solved this issue by removing all key bindings from "Settings -> All -> Input -> Key Bindings" and all keys are working as expected, now.

Because I don't use these key bindings with VNC it's not a big drawback for me.
It's just a bit strange, that a normal key press like "a" was recognized as a key binding (e.g. CTRL+ALT+a) using e17 with VNC, because this didn't happen using an xserver connection.
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