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aavera

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Wednesday, November 9th 2005, 5:29pm

Keyboard problem

I have run across a very strange problem.

First, let me explain that I understand keyboard delay and repeat settings. These are the parameters that determine how long a key is pressed (delay) before the key sends repeat characters to the keyboard buffer.

In other words, I'm supposed to press the key and instantly the letter should be typed on the screen, as I continue to hold down the key there should be a pause (delay time) before the key repeats.

Initial letter (instantaneous) --> delay --> repeat characters.

My keyboard is not behaving this way. When I log in as my username, my keyboard doesn't function correctly. When I press a key, nothing happens at first...the initial letter is NOT typed on the screen until a delay has passed...then the letter comes out, it is followed by another delay before repeat keys are sent to the screen. So what I'm seeing is:

Delay --> Initial Letter --> Delay --> Repeat Characters

This key delay makes my computer almost unusable.

It only happens when I'm logged in with my username... When I'm logged in with another username the keyboard works fine.

I'm on Fedora Core 4.

kdelibs-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdeaddons-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdeadmin-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdepim-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.3
kdemultimedia-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdenetwork-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdepim-3.4.2-0.fc4.3
kdesdk-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdenetwork-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdegames-3.4.2-0.fc4.2
kdeutils-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
lockdev-1.0.1-7.1
lockdev-devel-1.0.1-7.1
kdegraphics-3.4.2-0.fc4.2
kdelibs-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdevelop-3.2.2-0.fc4.1
kdeartwork-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdesdk-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdegraphics-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.2
kdebase-devel-3.4.2-0.fc4.1
kdeutils-3.4.2-0.fc4.1

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I'm using GNOME now with my username and it's working fine. Only when I use this username with my KDE do I see the problem. I don't like GNOME and I'm looking forward to once again enjoying my KDE.

Thanks!
-Andy
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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 1:28pm

I have had the same problem develop. Did you find an answer?
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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 4:16pm

RE: Keyboard problem

If this _only_ happens for one user, then suspect a dodgy config file in {home}/.kde of that user.

I maybe worth looking for the keyboard config file in the users .kde file and deleting it.

Or even via Control Centre set all the keyboard settings to default, log outm and log in to see if that cleared it?

Nick

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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 4:24pm

Nick

In fact, the answer turned out to be a lot easier than that.

I went into Control Centre -> Regional & Accessability->Accessability->Keyboard filters and then turned off the use slow keys feature.

This is obvious something to assist users with disabilties. Quite how that got changed remains a mystery. After three days of Googling I eventually solved the problem in two seconds! Phew! Is this why I love computers?

Thanks for your suggestions though.

Dave
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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 4:28pm

Believe it or not, I was just going to suggest to look in there!

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Tuesday, December 27th 2005, 4:41pm

Great minds ... 8)
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Thursday, December 29th 2005, 2:02am

Thank you Thank you Thank you!

Thanks, Dave!

I just read your fix, and tonight I'm glad to be back in KDE!

THANK YOU!!!!!!

-Andy
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Thursday, December 29th 2005, 3:04am

Andy

I'm glad this worked for you too. It took me three days to work out what the problem was. What I don't understand is why is happened in the first place. Maybe that's one of the mysteries of new technology.

Welcome back to KDE!

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Tuesday, January 10th 2006, 4:28am

RE: Keyboard problem

In my case, I was goofin ƒit daGimp and held the shift key down for a while (too long). Some sort of dialog box came up and asked some silly question like did I wanna change keyboard settings. I thought that I dismissed the !?! with a cancel/no/thanks-no, but this must have been when the slowkeys setting was changed. Mebby some sort of new feature? 3.5.0-0.2.fc4
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Thursday, January 12th 2006, 2:21am

Yes, I had a warning message like that too. But it came and went so quickly that I didn't have a chance to think about it. I suspect that it might be triggered by a shortcut key. Anyway, at least we now have an answer.

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Sunday, January 22nd 2006, 2:40am

RE: keyboard problem

Ok, I found out what was going on with mine. Somehow keyboard layouts were accidentally enabled ( probably by me ).
This feature (AFAICT) is enabled to insert characters with accents and other key encodings ( encodings is probably an incorrect term in this case , what is the correct term ? ) that are used in foreign language support. Anyway, the keys that were affected when these were ON ( keyboard layouts ) were only the quote , doublequote ( double quote ), apostrophe, caret (fang uparrow hat ^ ), and back tick ` . Evidentally the tilde would have given the same grief, but I didn't check that.

The ( what I thought was aberrant erroneous ) keyboard behavior experienced was I would press one of the aforementioned key once and nothing would happen, press it twice and I'd get the key pressed.

After I found the info on the web, I tried the intended use, and it worked fine (these nux programmers are amazing).
I wound press back tick Shift a (cap A) end I'd get one with back-tick-on-top-of-a-cap-a. A page found makes ref to
" dumpkeys | grep compose " (without the double quotes)
that gave an indication of how my keyboard would react.


Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Layout > Enable keyboard layouts .. was on .. turned em off by unchecking da checkbox.
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