Dear List, Thanks for the assistance with the Java less-than key problem. Everyone who could not reproduce the problem was using a different keyboard map setting than me. As one list subscriber suggested, that was the secret. After spending more time on this than I care to admit, and changing several things that made no difference, one change finally fixed it for my (standard?) keyboard. If anybody cares, I changed the KDE keyboard layout from "U.S. English (us)" to "U.S. English w/ISO9995-3 (en_US)" as follows: In KDE under SuSE9.2: K Menu->Control Center->Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard Layout Remove current keyboard layout: Under "Active Layouts", click "U.S. English (us)" icon, then click "<<Remove". Under "Available Layouts", click "U.S.English w/ISO999-3 (en_US)", then click "Add>>" Click "Apply" near bottom of window. Close control panel Log-out of KDE When you log-in, the less-than key, and every other keyboard key work correctly in Java AWT. Yippee!! Wahoo!!! Life is good again!!!!

Hello,

I've been fighting with a Java problem that only appears on Intel SuSE Pro 9.0-9.2 machines running KDE (as far as I know). When using the keyboard to enter text into an AWT TextField. Less-than "<" is getting converted to greater-than ">".