Re: User Keyboard problems

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On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:47 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:03 -0400, Jim wrote:
> >   
> >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:19 -0400, Jim wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:59 -0400, Jim wrote:
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> One User has lost use of Keyboard on his home directory, If you hold a 
> >>>>>> key down for about 5sec the character for that key will appear.
> >>>>>> Went into the KDE /Control Center/Peripherals and settings for keyboard 
> >>>>>> was the same as for  another normal working box.
> >>>>>> Where is the keyboard controlled (file) from a users home directory ?
> >>>>>> Holding down 'shift key' for 10 secs doesn't make any difference either.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The other three users on this same box has use of keyboard on their home 
> >>>>>> directory.
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>>         
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> To help understand your question, when you say "home directory", do you
> >>>>> mean "account"? It's not the same thing, and if you don't mean "account"
> >>>>> your question doesn't seem to make sense.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> poc
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> FC8/KDE
> >>>> One of four users on same box can't use keyboard in their /home/user 
> >>>> directory.
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Still doesn't make sense. What you're saying is that the user changes to
> >>> his home directory (i.e. does "cd ~") and suddenly can't use his
> >>> keyboard?
> >>>
> >>> poc
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> The User tells me that there was a power failure and when he rebooted 
> >> the box then he login using keyboard,
> >> then when he got into his Desktop keyboard wouldn't respond, and still 
> >> won't.
> >>     
> >
> > OK, that makes more sense. You did mean "account", not "home directory".
> >
> > Ask the user to log in using the other desktop, i.e. if he normally uses
> > KDE, tell him to try Gnome for one session and see if it makes a
> > difference. A power failure could do anything, but since it hasn't
> > affected other users I'm guessing the keyboard hardware is OK. It's
> > possible an X-related file got smashed and it's affecting him. Something
> > similar just happened to me, though not with the keyboard, but I'll
> > start another thread about that.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >   
> This box only has KDE on it.
> He will have  to start a new Desktop , under a different user name.

Take a look at /home/<user>/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc and see if anything
stands out as different from a working users's setup. Also, run "xev" to
see if keyboard events are actually being received.

poc

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