Re: Possible gconf problem: no keyboard anymore

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

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