Re: [SLE] no keyboard with KDE

From: Jose Thadeu Cavalcante (thadeurj_at_terra.com.br)
Date: 11/04/05

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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:39:21 -0200

    Look if VNC Server is enabled in Sax2 configuration, when I set it my keyboard
    stop to work like your keyboard. To type root password I use kcharselect from
    K-Menu/Utilities/Desktop via copy/paste.
    Thadeu
    On Friday 04 November 2005 09:02, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:
    > I tried to send this email to opensuse@opensuse.org first, but it
    > didn't come to me through the mailing list ::shrug::
    >
    > SuSE 10.0.
    >
    > I recently switched from Fedora Core where I was used to Gnome. So,
    > when I switched to SuSE, I made sure that all of the Gnome and GTK
    > stuff was installed and Gnome was the default. I thought I'd give KDE
    > a try, since it's SuSE's default and there are a lot of programs that
    > I'm not using which are KDE based.
    >
    > After I switched, using the "Session" link at the bottom of the
    > greeter, I can't use the keyboard. I know it works, I just can't use
    > it from within KDE. I can't type in a Konsole terminal... I can't use
    > CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to the actual console. I can't open the YaST
    > Control Center properly because I can't type the root password when
    > I'm prompted.
    >
    > If I use the mouse to log out, or end my session, I can type again...
    > I can log in. Everything works fine in Gnome.
    >
    > I read something from an old message that seems to describe this
    > problem in relation to upgrading KDE, but this is the first time I've
    > run KDE.
    >
    > Does anyone have any ideas?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Vince

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