Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:12:28 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Esaltato <esaltato@tele2.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No keyboard with Gnome and X.org (and gnome loaded behind KDE) Message-ID: <1094231547.727.12.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <41383F2B.5040201@tele2.it> References: <41383F2B.5040201@tele2.it>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 05:53, Esaltato wrote: > I got a problem with GNOME since switching to xorg. On KDE everything is > fine, but on Gnome 2.6 (all my system has been portupgraded yesterday) > my keystrokes are blocked; as I type the text cursor stops blinking and > nothing gets written. If I press ctrl, shift and some letters a lot of > times it may happen that I can write sometimes, but only as long as I > hold shift down and I don't change the writing focus. It seems like if > my keys command are getting intercepted. This only happens as root. > I want to point out that I've been throughly searching for solutions, > and that not a solution proposed on the net has solved this. > It may be related to the problem of this message popping up on Gnome > (which I don't have, let's clarify it now, more on this later): > > :::::::start message > Error activating XKB configuration. > Probably internal X server problem. You need to read /usr/ports/UPDATING. [snip] > Any idea? I seem the only one with this problem. As for now, I'm > sticking with KDE, but I need/want GNOME. > Oh, just another thing that may be related, but I don't think is, but > anyway is annoying: when I go to the desktop properties and hide my > icons from the KDE desktop my GNOME desktop comes along, with all the > icons (just some of them are blank, since gnome is not completely > loaded) (and yes, keyboard works). Moreover the GNOME desktop picture > comes up when I turn off my PC: why? Is a part of GNOME being loaded > aside with kde/kdm? No clue. Perhaps somewhere you're starting Nautilus. Joe > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBBOKX7b2iPiv4Uz4cRAphKAJ9coIGE5nzh9pnIRKrhxJ1s4+nHAgCUCOAY 2QNxCoNT+OH0rJZs51Kdnw== =kd4m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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