2011/4/20 YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk>: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:27:03AM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> El día 18 de abril de 2011 00:01, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella >> <jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> Try to reset all shortcuts with: >> >> setxkbmap -option >> > >> > It doesn't change anything. The problem starts in kdm, before loging >> > in, so it's nothing specific to a given user account. >> >> Oh, I forgot, it is nothing specific to kdm either. What I meant above >> is that it happens since I enter X. Or rather, since this is the >> default behavior in the console, we could more correctly say that it >> *continues* happening when I enter X, where it should not happen. >> >> I tested the lxde login manager and it has the same problem. >> > > It seems like X didn't switch the keyboard to raw mode or something like > this... The win key on linux console swithes to a previou vt (don't know > if it is intentional, or just a side effect of the kernel not correctly > handling it) > > Sometimes, when an app freezes the whole X (usually when it grabs the > keyboard and freezes) I have to use the magic sysrq keys to "unraw" the > keyboard, which means I can that use alt-fX to swtich to text VTs, kill > the app and return to X... however from that moment on until I restart > X, the keyboard is not in raw mode and alt-fX and also the winkey switch > consoles (like you describe)
This must be the key, but I still haven't found how to start digging into this. In any case, if I manage to fix this I'll let everyone know here. There must be a cause for this since I seem to be the only one suffering this problem. Thank you for all the pointers though, they might prove helpful sooner or later. -- Jesús Guerrero Botella
