[plug] Weird keyboard, laptop, Mandake 8.0

[Alan Graham]

I chose US (international) first.  When I initially built it, I had the
problem both in KDE and Gnome.  I changed the setting to US in
harddrake, which fixed it in KDE, but in gnome, the problem's still
there.  I've flicked between US and international a few times while in
gnome, to no affect.  I think I'm going to have to log in to KDE as me,
rename the .gnome directories, and then log into gnome again.  I'm
hoping that this will build me new gnome settings, with the 'correct'
keyboard mappings.  Then I'll just have to play around with my settings
to get things back to the way I like them.

Apologies if there are any words missing 'r's, I'm putting them in with
the middle button.  It's a real pain when I forget, and want to copy
something else!  :-)

Alan

On 31 May 2001 13:13:42 +0800, WFerrara at vicpark.wa.gov.au wrote:
> Hello, Alan!
> 
> I think you need to choose the "International Keyboard" setting in Harddrake
> (somewhere??).  On the work laptop this fixed that (really damned annoying)
> problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Wayne L. Ferrara
> Information Systems Project Officer
> The Town of Victoria Park
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Graham [mailto:alan.graham at infonetsystems.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 May 2001 19:43
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Weird keyboard, laptop, Mandake 8.0
> 
> 
> I've just blown away my perfectly good red hat 7.0 install on my laptop
> to play with M8.  It's very nice, works fine, except that the keyboard
> mappings aren't right.  When I'm logged in as me using gnome, the r key,
> the esc key, single quote and double quote, and the caret, don't work.
> When I'm logged in using KDE, or as root using either, all keys work
> fine.
> 
> When I installed M8, I kept the /home filesystem.  Which means that the
> user has (probably) the same .gnome settings as I had under red hat.
> Unfotunately, I don't know where to start.  Should I just blow away the
> user definition and build it?  Or is there an easy fix to correct the
> key mappings?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alan Graham
> 
> 
>