Comments on: Fix: Up arrow launches KSnapshot

By: eB

eB — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:27:03 +0000

For me it was solved by changing the keyboard model in KDE to an evdev one. And leave the xorg.conf file untouched.

more info:
http://www.nabble.com/xorg—keyboard-td14973779.html

By: Muffit

Muffit — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:46:29 +0000

Thanks man! Such a simple “solution” for something that was bothering me for days. Now I can sleep again…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:07:45 +0000

Ahh… nice to know that someone has the same symptom but alas, the solution isn’t for me

My KDE didn’t have Keyboard Layouts enabled. I tried enabling it and disabling it again, but the keys remain scrambled. Also noticeable: the left key seems to be Alt; Insert, Delete, Home End, and Page Up seem to do nothing; Page Down acts like the context menu key (I just tried it and it acted like I’d right-clicked, it’s supposed to be the key next to Right Ctrl that you never use). The best I can figure is that deactivating the Keyboard Layouts option actually wiped out another conflicting setting (which I never had)… and that when KDE chokes on this conflict (or mine) it punts and uses a similarly broken layout.

This is in a mostly up-to-date Gentoo, but it’s interesting to note that in my friend’s mostly up-to-date Kubuntu, he has basically NO keyboard once he logs into KDE. The quick fix is to remove your ~/.kde directory (or .kde3.5) and the problem is solved. This worked in that Kubuntu setup, but I haven’t tried it yet in mine… here goes.

By: J

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:26:13 +0000

Thank you for this post, it saved what was left of my hair! In my situation I updated to the latest kde and xorg and found my keyboard had gone south just as you described. I turned off keyboard layouts in kde and it works again.