Thanks for putting me in the right direction. I had searched for keyboard problem in kde, not imagining it would be a hal - xorg interaction.
In fact changing my keyboard type in kde to edev-managed is what did the trick. Mark On Friday 26 October 2007, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Hi! > > Please see > #447731 > > I am closing your bug as it doesn't contain any new information. > > /Sune > > On Friday 26 October 2007, Mark Niven wrote: > > Package: kdebase > > Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > On the latest upgrade - to 3.5.8 - kxkb seems to have been broken and > > misinterprets extended key scan codes: the normal keys work but the > > cursor etc keys to the right do not. For example, the up key is > > interpreted as printscreen (which led to great confusion with kSnapshot > > appearing all the time!) No problem in a standard text console or with > > other window managers (twm); I eventially found that turning off > > keyboard layouts and restarting the x-server did the trick, and > > re-enabling breaks things again. However - I need multiple keyboard > > layouts.... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
