Re: No keyboard with Gnome and X.org (and gnome loaded behind KDE)

From: Esaltato (esaltato_at_tele2.it)
Date: 09/09/04

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    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.
    >
    > X server version data:
    > The X.Org Foundation
    > 60700000
    >
    > If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
    > - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
    > - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
    > :::::::end message
    >
    > These are the results:
    >
    > localhost# xprop -root | grep XKB
    > _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "logiik", "it", "basic", ""
    > localhost# gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
    > layouts = [it]
    > model = logiik
    > overrideSettings = false
    > options = []
    >
    > No help in changing the keyboard values...
    >
    > People report that this error message usually comes on start after the
    > xorg update, but I _did not_ have this problem. I only get that pop up
    > message (twice) if I go to the gnome keyboard panel and remove my
    > italian keymap (I tried switching to no keymap and US).
    > I followed the UPDATING hints related to gnome and xorg, so I rebuilt
    > the 2 needed libraries x11-toolkits/libwnck and x11/libxklavier.
    > I _haven't_ got the line
    >
    > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
    >
    > in my xorg file, which I let xorg itself build, and then I modified
    > accordingly to my needs. I tried everything, and everything seems OK:
    > Section "InputDevice"
    >
    > Identifier "Keyboard1"
    > Driver "Keyboard"
    >
    > Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    >
    > Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    > Option "XkbModel" "logiik"
    > Option "XkbLayout" "it"
    >
    > EndSection
    > (.....)
    > InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    >
    > Oh, and I upgraded like the HEADSUP said. I use kdm now, but I used
    > xdm when the problem surfaced.
    >
    > Any idea? I seem the only one with this problem. As for now, I'm
    > sticking with KDE, but I need/want GNOME.

    I hope this is gonna be useful to others. The problem was the %gconf.xml
    placed in /root/.gconf/apps/Esaltato/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings.
    Once deleted (I deleted the whole gnome_settins_daemon dir) the problem
    was solved. This file has inside the global shortcuts I had set for my
    logitech keyboard. Somehow, after the big X.org update it wasn't welcome.
    Bye, Esaltato
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