Re: wierd behavior in KDE 3.4

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Author: Jerry Davis
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: wierd behavior in KDE 3.4
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:29 am, Art W wrote:
> Jerry Davis wrote:
> >On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:05 pm, jerry davis wrote:
> >>I have Mandriva 2005 LE, and it has been working fine since it came out.
> >>It had KDE 3.3 on it. I recently upgraded to KDE 3.4 about a week ago.
> >>It worked good too, UNTIL tonight.
> >>
> >>I am now running kmail from Gnome. Here's why:
> >>
> >>All of a sudden, my keyboard just went wacky. If I press any single key
> >> (it doesn't matter which one), it doesn't register with KDE. If I get
> >> into a terminal, and hold down a key (so it repeats) EVENTUALLY I get
> >> some of the keys.
> >>
> >>My keyboard works fine in Gnome, and it works fine if I boot into
> >> safemode. My next try is to mv my .kde directory and see if something in
> >> there (config wise) is causing it.
> >>
> >>I just can't understand this.
> >>Anyone got any ideas???
> >>
> >>Jerry
> >
> >Well I did the mv .kde .kde_saved and it straightened up my problem.
> >This is REALLY wierd. I have been using KDE for literally years, and have
> >never encounterd that kind of problem. However, after googling this
> > problem, it would appear that this is not an isolated problem.
> >
> >I did however lose my config for mail, thank goodness I had put all the
> >parameters I needed in a text file.
> >
> >Jerry
>
> I am seeing the same symptoms. I´m running Fedora FC4 + KDE. The next
> thing you will see is the mouse will start simulating a left button
> press when ever it´s left over any button or any place a left button
> will cause any action, such as showing a menu when on an empty
> background screen.
>
> I have found that going into KDE ¨Control Center¨ and setting
> ¨Peripherals¨, Këyboard, and ¨Mouse¨ perameters to ¨ Default¨ clears the
> problem temporarly.
>
> I can´t really tell what is happening but I think Xorg and KDE are not
> ¨playing nice together¨
> Are you runing Xorg or X11R6?


xorg

>
> See y Redhat Bugzilla Bug;
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174875
>
> Art Wagner
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