Re: Control key problem

[Halestino Pimentel <halestino@gmail.com>]

Em Terça 27 Dezembro 2005 21:36, o David Pastern escreveu:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 07:33 +1100, Halestino Pimentel wrote:
> > All options are disabled and the problem still persists.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Halestino
>
> Out of curiousity, does the problem persist:
>
> 1.  If you boot into single user mode (ie. no X)?
>

No. In tty1 to tty6 there isn't any problem.

> 2.  If you plug in an external keyboard?
>

I can't test that option 'cause I don't have any external keyboard with me. 
Perhaps only after tomorrow.

> My guess is it's an X issue, try doing a dpkg-reconfigure whilst in
> single user mode on these packages:
>
> x11-common
> xserver-xorg
> xserver-common
>

I reconfigured all packages and changing some options but the problem 
persists :-(

> Does the problem persist in other desktop environments, ie. Gnome, XFCE
> etc?
>

No. Just in KDE. In Gnome, the key behaves just fine.

> That's about all I can honestly think of trying/checking, hopefully it
> sheds some more light on the problem.
>
All contributions help. Thanks.

> Dave

One more strange discovery: 
- when I'm editing some text, if I want to jump between words (using 
CRTL_right + left (or right) cursor key) the cursor stays in the same place 
blinking (ab)normally. 
If I use the Shift key with left (or right) cursor key selecting some text and 
start pressing the CONTROL-left key I begin to select word by word, which is 
normal. Unpressing the shift key, but still pressing CONTROL_left and left 
(or right) cursor key, the CONTROL_left key behaves normally making the 
cursor jump to the beginning of the next word which is the expected behavior.
If I release the CONTROL_left key, and press it again, the cursor stays still 
again :-(
Seems like the Shift key is responsible for "unblocking" the CONTROL_left key. 
Is there any bad configuration in Control Center that I could have made?

Halestino