Re: Possible gconf problem: no keyboard anymore
- From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
- Cc: gconf-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Possible gconf problem: no keyboard anymore
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:03:46 +0100
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:40, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:00, Guillaume Blanc wrote:
>
> > I'm running gnome 2 with Mandrake 9 on a Dell laptop. Up to know
> > everything was working perfectly. But at some point (I remember I was
> > playing with the <shift>-PageUp/Down to scroll in the gnome-terminal) my
> > keyboard became ineffective: impossible to send any key to the terminal.
> > The only working keys are the Function key (Dell laptop) to play with the
> > screen luminosity.
>
> My guess is that you held Shift for 8 seconds or pressed it 5 times and
> this enabled a very confusing accessibility option. Unfortunately, I
> can't reproduce this at all on Fedora Core 2 and I don't understand why.
>
> (The solution to your problem is more than likely to set
> /desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboard/enable to FALSE or probably just
> hold down shift again or press it 5 times.)
>
> Could someone on the accessibility list clear this up perhaps? What is
> the magic sequence of keypresses and if its hold shift for 8 seconds and
> press shift 5 times ... why doesn't that work for me?
An example of this being reported before:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112931
I'd really love to be able to reproduce what's going on here.
Thanks,
Mark
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