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russK l33t
Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 665
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:34 pm Post subject: Keyboard trouble under Xorg |
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I'm not sure what happened, after some recent emerges, my keyboard does not work right in an X environment. I use gnome and gdm, I can't log in graphically ... I get a big circle with a line through it like 'do not pass / no entry' symbol.
If I get a gnome session started via startx, the 's' key and possibly others do not work, in gnome-terminal the cursor just blinks when those keys are pressed.
With xev, for the 's' key, it says:
Code: | KeymapNotify event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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This is frustrating and annoying, to type this post I had to copy and paste every 's' character from somewhere else. Maybe I will laugh once solved.
Any idea what happened or how to fix?
I have a ROCCATT ISKU keyboard that has been working well for a long time.
Here is Xorg.0.log: https://bpaste.net/show/86871db0cbdf
Thanks
Edit:
Interestingly, this appears to be a gnome issue, I can use blackbox with no keyboard problem. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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russK,
I guess that you have accidently bound the 's' key to something, so Gnome (possibly Xorg) is picking it up to mean something special.
That way the keypress is not passed on to applications. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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russK l33t
Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 665
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:49 am Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: | I guess that you have accidently bound the 's' key to something, so Gnome (possibly Xorg) is picking it up to mean something special.
That way the keypress is not passed on to applications. |
Thanks
I wish I knew how I did that so I could undo it.
Thus far I have emerged MATE and it does not exhibit the problem so I might be a convert soon. I am accustomed to gnome 3.16 but if this lasts much longer I see some --deselect and --depcleans in my future.
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v_andal Guru
Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 541 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:18 am Post subject: |
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According to Xlog your keyboard is configured both as keyboard and as mouse. I wonder if this introduces confusion to Gnome. You may try to disable configuring it as mouse to see if this helps in the Gnome. |
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