At 07:16 PM 9/6/2006 -0400, Paul Abrahams wrote:
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Is there a Linux program around, preferably part of the SuSE distribution, for testing all the keys on my keyboard? I washed one of my keyboards and it had stuck keys for a while. I want to be sure that they're all gone.
And an aside: what are folks' favorite ways of cleaning keyboards?
Paul
Gee, I've been opmputing since way before Linux was invented, and I never spilled anything on a keyboard. I'm kinda careful about that. The other thing that seems to help is to have a good KB to begin with. I have IBM's here, bought at flea markets and surely used already, and they work great. (They make a bit more noise than you might want in a shared office environment. But the touch is excellent.) Somebody made a KB called 2001, that I used to have at work. That was pretty rugged and bulletproof, too, and quieter. Neither one has Windows keys, and I don't miss them. Linux and Windows are perfectly happy with them. A bit of "Fantastik" on a damp rag will clean the tops of the keys and the surround very nicely. I have never felt a laptop KB that I was happy with, but I know some of you are stuck with that. I don't know how a reporter, who has to live on the KB, more or less, puts up with them. --doug