[plug] Weird keyboard, laptop, Mandake 8.0

[Simon Scott]

	HEH... this is good fun

	I had the same problem, where my keyboard was set to UK. Some keys
wouldnt work etc. So what did I do? Logged in as root and changed it to US.

	Problem was, next time I went to login, I realised that my password
wasnt accepted, because it had some non-alpha chars in it, and these had
shifted.

	Unfortunately, one of them was the UK pound sign :)

	So, I couldnt login to change the keyboard back so I could change my
passwd. In the end, I think I located the ASCII value for the pound sign and
managed to login, instantly changing my passwd.


	Good fun, good fun.





	From:	WFerrara at vicpark.wa.gov.au on 31-05-2001 01:16 PM
	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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	Subject:	RE: [plug] Weird keyboard, laptop, Mandake 8.0

	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





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