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Re: [LUG] Gnome keyboard problem

 

On 4/25/05, Jeremy Pearson <jeremypearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm using Gnome 2.6 on Slackware 10.1 on a Packard Bell iGo-4451 laptop.

To get either a " or a ' I need to press the key twice. Even then, when
I'm writing code in (say) Python, the interpreter doesn't see " as an
ASCII double-quote, but some bizarre unicode character, and hence won't
understand statements containing a " . it's the same for the ' character.

These keys work fine in the initial bash shell, and they also work OK in
KDE 3.4.

Can anyone suggest what's happening, and how I might fix it?

Yes, something has changed your keyboard mapping. Possibly gnome
trying to be clever.

You might want to try xkeycaps, JWZ's ancient and as yet unequalled x
keyboard mapping software.

http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/

I have been playing around on this laptop trying to make it map the st
georges flag and menu buttons to something useful (home/end for me as
the touchpad scroller negates the urgent need for bigger easier to
reach pgup/dn)

A.

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