[opensuse] crazy keyboard problem
Hello SuSE people, I'm writing this from my 11.1 testbed On my 10.3 64 bit setup with KDE3.5.10, I suddenly developed this crazy problem last night. (no updates for over a week) And the problem is for only one user. Other users are OK and other installed OS's are OK. Any app for that user will not accept keyboard input. Kwrite, Konsole, Kmail etc, unless you hold the key down for one second or longer. At that point it prints 2 characters of the letter you held down and stops. You also must hold down the "back" arrow and/or the backspace key. Then it will go back the two spaces and stop. If I hold down Alt/F2 it brings up a terminal instead of the command line, and displays the logon request. Same for the other F# keys except that Alt/F7 brings back the desktop. Of course I have checked the Personal Setting>Peripherals>Keyboard and tried all kinds of different things. (Not much you can do there anyway) I even opened Yast in a terminal and checked the keyboard there. Nothing there that is appropriate anyway. I am at a complete loss here, Ever heard of anything like this? Any ideas? What and where are the config files for the keyboard? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
In <200904052328.09213.911@sanctum.com>, Bob Stia wrote:
If I hold down Alt/F2 it brings up a terminal instead of the command line, and displays the logon request. Same for the other F# keys except that Alt/F7 brings back the desktop.
This sounds like one of your Ctrl keys is stuck. Normally, Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F7 switch to "virtual" terminals 1-7. Normally, X uses vt7, while a login process is run (and rerun as needed) on virtual terminals 1-6. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-04-05 at 23:28 -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
I am at a complete loss here, Ever heard of anything like this? Any ideas? What and where are the config files for the keyboard?
I would try another desktop, for that user. At worst, you know you can remove all the kde user config, and start fresh... just rename the directories (kdesomething) of the user, log-in, try, then copy back the configurations you can't do without, like kmail, for instance. Or, try grepping for "keyb"something in all the files under those directories. Wildshooting, you know. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknZeTQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WSogCfeo/SpUy+zsahtM1LjWdm20S1 tksAn1C+djizUvZ65i1X8b6SLbhLo1Ld =i/8j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:28 -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I'm writing this from my 11.1 testbed
On my 10.3 64 bit setup with KDE3.5.10, I suddenly developed this crazy problem last night. (no updates for over a week) And the problem is for only one user. Other users are OK and other installed OS's are OK. Any app for that user will not accept keyboard input. Kwrite, Konsole, Kmail etc, unless you hold the key down for one second or longer.
Bob, same thing happened to me the other night, and it took me a little while to find it. The following is Gnome-centric. Don't know how you dod it in KDE. Go to Control Centre, then Keyboard, then Accessibilty. You will likely find the option "Only accept long keypresses" is checked. Uncheck this, and all should be good with the world again. Cheers, Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 06 April 2009 06:35:29 am Allen Benter wrote:
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:28 -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I'm writing this from my 11.1 testbed
On my 10.3 64 bit setup with KDE3.5.10, I suddenly developed this crazy problem last night. (no updates for over a week) And the problem is for only one user. Other users are OK and other installed OS's are OK. Any app for that user will not accept keyboard input. Kwrite, Konsole, Kmail etc, unless you hold the key down for one second or longer.
Bob,
same thing happened to me the other night, and it took me a little while to find it. The following is Gnome-centric. Don't know how you dod it in KDE.
Go to Control Centre, then Keyboard, then Accessibilty. You will likely find the option "Only accept long keypresses" is checked. Uncheck this, and all should be good with the world again.
Cheers,
Allen
Thanks Allen,..and you too Carlos & Boyd for replying You set me on the right path. In KDE I had to go to: Personal Settings>Regional & Accessibility>Accessibility, then in the menu,Keyboard Filters and disable Use slow keys. Pretty convoluted but it worked. Only now I can't hold a key down and have it repeat. Have no idea how that happened. But thanks again for your tip. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2009-04-06 at 23:17 -0400, Bob S wrote:
Thanks Allen,..and you too Carlos & Boyd for replying
You set me on the right path. In KDE I had to go to: Personal Settings>Regional & Accessibility>Accessibility, then in the menu,Keyboard Filters and disable Use slow keys. Pretty convoluted but it worked. Only now I can't hold a key down and have it repeat. Have no idea how that happened.
But thanks again for your tip.
Wow. What a setting... I had no idea of that one. About the autorepeat, it is a system-wide setting, but seeing the previous one, there must be another user setting for the autorepeat, but I guess it will be in the normal keyboard settings, not under accesibility. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknbI0QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U9/QCfTFKZntcM3zWPWpK/8KmBRhRd 5MgAnjOD0h3uxUPIvypKaBhnmRQM08b/ =nCxn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 05:56:13 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
Wow. What a setting... I had no idea of that one.
About the autorepeat, it is a system-wide setting, but seeing the previous one, there must be another user setting for the autorepeat, but I guess it will be in the normal keyboard settings, not under accesibility.
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Hi Carlos, Yes you are right. It is in Peripherals>Keyboard. I found it and fixed it right after I sent that mail, Crazy though, that keyboard settings would be set all over the place. I would never have looked in Accessibility except for the tip provided by Allen. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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