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Friday, June 17th 2005, 4:59am

Canṫ configure keyboard propperly

note that that should be an appostrophty t for cant but that is one of the problems I? having.

Ive had this problem before.... but before that it came up working OK.

Im not sure if it is a problem with Mandrake or KDE.

I just recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.2
I had these problems in Mandrake 9.2 which was the last distribution I was using.

In the versions before 8.0 Mandrake installed without any keyboard problems whatsoever.

In 9.2 I was able to fix it by defining the keyboard as US International 105 keys.

Doing that in 10.2 does not correct the problem.

A few of my keys are not working at all or translate to the wrong key or something.

It is a generic keyboard. PC Concepts.

There is a model number on the back: 61565


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Since I got my keyboard working in Mandrake 9.2 (and I have a backup), could I copy the files that contain my old configuration into my new preferances?

(I should note that inorder to start KDE after the upgrade I had to delete .kde)

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Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 9:31pm

RE: Canṫ configure keyboard propperly

Are you still having a problem? Just checking.

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Friday, March 24th 2006, 12:39am

RE: Canṫ configure keyboard propperly

Yes, but who knows, I might upgrade my distro sometime soon, or buy a new keyboard or something.... If I do buy a new keyboard it will be a big name brand like IBM or something.....

But if you have any advice I'd love to hear it.

(The main problem is that I've gotten used to hitting space after doing a quote, so when I'm booted in Windoze or at school or whatever I have to remember not to.)

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Friday, March 24th 2006, 4:45am

RE: Canṫ configure keyboard propperly

Sounds like you might be using an international keyboard like English Intl. To check, press the tilde (~), then the n key. If you get an ñ, then you have an international keyboard set. Go into Control Center > Regional & Accessories > Keyboard Layout and select English or US English (not International), and make sure the Layout Varient is set to something like Basic. I am using Debian, so your setup may be different. Let me know if this is the problem.

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Friday, March 24th 2006, 7:48am

I posted this already, but since it's closely related...

aaronforjesus, I understand your solution. The logic of it, and the steps I should take. The problem is, the basic (not intl) variant of the US English (not international) layout is missing at the drop down box in kxkb. This behaviour came up both in a Gentoo 2006.0 box with KDE 3.4.3 and in a Slackware 10.1 box with KDE 3.5.

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic

works like a charm, but I couldn't find a way to configure this variant through kxkb. I am able to do it in a kubuntu 5.10 box, but not in the other two I mentioned.

I already found a solution at the xkb level (via xorg.conf), but I really miss the flags in the system tray :( Besides, I'm unable to configure window-level switching. I only get global...

Any other ideas or suggestions?

Thanks!