From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 6 08:24:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD5616A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from portalis.it (mail2.portalis.it [213.199.4.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA04843D1F for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:24:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from esaltato@tele2.it) Received: from [62.123.129.136] ([62.123.129.136]) by portalis.it with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:44:07 +0200 Message-ID: <413C1EA7.6060707@tele2.it> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:24:07 +0200 From: Esaltato User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040901) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <41383F2B.5040201@tele2.it> <1094231547.727.12.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1094231547.727.12.camel@gyros> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No keyboard with Gnome and X.org (and gnome loaded behind KDE) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:24:11 -0000 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.