Re: Keyboard problems with Java Desktop System

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 04/17/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:30:19 +0000 (UTC)

tristram.scott@ntlworld.com (Tristram Scott) writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|I have installed Solaris 10 on a SunFire V100, and also on a 280R. I am
|attempting to open a remote X session to these from a laptop with Solaris
|9 'x86, and from an SGI Indigo2. This seems to work okay when I choose
|CDE, but the Java Desktop System doesn't respond to any keyboard input.
|The mouse works fine.
|
|Has anyone got any ideas as to what might be the cause of this?

Yes. Known GNOME bug. Patch coming soon. The Sun bug id is 6239595 -
it's also reported to the GNOME community as
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170318

The workaround from the Sun engineer working on it (updated since I
last posted about this earlier this week in comp.unix.solaris):
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A workaround is to log directly on the sparc machine (or remotely via a
CDE or failsafe session).

Set all the keys defined in /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings
to an empty string.

The following command will remove all the default settings :

gconftool-2 -s --type=string
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/volume_down "" -s --type=string
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/volume_up "" -s --type=string
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/volume_mute ""

To verify there are no remaining keys set you can run the command :
gconftool-2 -a /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings

the output should be :
 eject =
 home =
 volume_down =
 screensaver =
 play =
 pause =
 sleep =
 brightness_down =
 volume_up =
 www =
 brightness_up =
 next =
 volume_mute =
 stop =
 previous =
 email =
 help = Help
 search =

Then remotely login in a JDS 3 session, the key grab won't happen.

Note that you can set the keys via the gconf-editor GUI too by replacing
the non empty keys by an empty string.

(Note : if you want to reset the default settings run :
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings)
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