keyboard keymap is messed up. the down button brings up a window pointing to my home

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01-23-2005, 02:45 PM	#1
williamp0044 LQ Newbie Registered: Feb 2004 Location: Gotham City Distribution: RedHat Mandrake Suse Knoppix PHLAK Posts: 19 Rep:	keyboard keymap is messed up. the down button brings up a window pointing to my home I have a Dell Latitude C600 and whenever I hit the down button on my keyboard rather than scrolling down a web page or a document a window comes up showing my home folder. When I log in as root the down buttom it works just fine. How can i fix it so that the down button does what it is suppose to?

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