Closing this bug with Won't fix as Hardy is no longer supported.
Please feel free to open a new bug report if you're still experiencing this on
a newer release (Bionic 18.04.3 / Disco 19.04)
Thanks!
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190934
Title:
[hardy] keyboard modifiers randomly forgotten
Status in libgnomekbd package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
When using GNOME, with keyboard settings set with the GNOME keyboard
capplet, keyboard modifiers (shift, caps lock, alt, etc.) will
randomly be forgotten. It may be on next login, it may just happen
while using the box. But it will happen at some point. Others (e.g.
Amaranth on #gnome-hackers) have seen similar behavior, and it was
Amaranth who showed me the workaround.
Steps to reproduce: Unknown
Details of my keyboard settings: Generic 105-key PC keyboard, USA
layout. Layout options set are swapping ctrl and caps lock, and menu
is compose key.
Symptoms: randomly, modifier keys will stop working. This may be all
modifieres (e.g. shift, alt, ctrl, etc.) or it may be just a few of
the settings (for example, it's happened that ctrl and caps lock got
un-switched despite the capplet saying they were still switched).
That one was sure odd. Usually, though, I'll notice that GNOME forgot
my keyboard settings
Workaround: when the modifiers are forgotten, log out. Log in to a
text terminal and kill any lagging gconf processes (I've had good luck
with kill -9 -1 ;) Then rm -rf
.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard. Log out of the text
terminal and log in to GNOME again. You'll have to reset your
keybinding modifiers, but the keys will all work again.
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