Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:24:07 +0200 From: Esaltato <esaltato@tele2.it> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No keyboard with Gnome and X.org (and gnome loaded behind KDE) Message-ID: <413C1EA7.6060707@tele2.it> In-Reply-To: <1094231547.727.12.camel@gyros> References: <41383F2B.5040201@tele2.it> <1094231547.727.12.camel@gyros>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >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] > > I won't tell to read my original email, just read the answer to the other mail and you'll get it. Maybe I should start typing everything with caps lock on. The problem is still here anyway, I hope to see something getting better in "xorg with gnome keyboard problems". >>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 > > I'm not. Something other is happening.
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