Hi Janneke, On +2020-04-14 07:46:48 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Christopher Howard writes: > > > I'm having some trouble playing around with the VM, because a lot of > > weird things are happening with keyboard input into the qemu > > window. It seems like the meta keys (shift, ctrl, alt, super) are > > behaving in strange ways, or that terminal state is getting corrupted > > somehow. E.g., sometimes shift key stops working, or the cursors jumps > > up to the middle of the screen, or text gets garbled. > > Since yesterday I've been seeing that too. I'm pretty sure that if you > build a VM from core-uupdates, the console is fine. > > I haven't looked into the details of the console/tty setup, so I must > have messed-up something. Sorry!
Could it be a sensitive touch-pad? (are there configs to adjust triggering on motion?) (I have to disable mouse/touchpad input to edit unless I'm super careful not to brush it with my sleeve or palm) > > Meanwhile we do have ssh login :-) > > The startup now goes like this > > startup -> runsystem -> init -> runsystem.hurd -> rc -> shepherd > > and; i would like to move towards > > -startup -> rc -> shepherd > > if that's possible. > > Greetings, > janneke > > -- > Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org > Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com > > > -- Regards, Bengt Richter