Ralph Blach wrote:
My son has a linux setup at school. It is a redhat 9.0 running on a 500mhz pentium processor.
he has mozilla 1.7.2 and open office 1.1.2. His base desktop os gnome.
The other day he locked out his keyboard somehow. I looked for a long time on my system on how this could happen.
No keyboard input was allowed on any of windows. Is there a setting in GNOME that would lock out the keyboard totally.
I fixed it by removing his .gconf files and having him restart gnome.
Any ideas..
Thanks
Chip
I don't know of any global setting that would cause that, but I don't claim to know Gnome all that thoroughly at all. Strangely though, I have had a similar, yet different, problem with terminals. If you inadvertently press control-s (^s)while typing (on ye-old average system), the terminal will appear to hang! The reasoning is of course that ^s is the stop character, as shown by the output of stty -a, much in the same way that Control-Z is the suspend character. The resolution: Control-q is the start character, and will allow you to continue upon your merry way. :)
Happy Typing!
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