I'm a linux newbie, so please let me know if I missed any important details needed to diagnose the problem.

Problem: Whenever I hit the 'd' key in the Konsole shell, the system shutsdown. It is as if I hit a "Ctrl + D". When I hit the 'd' key when editing a file in KDevelop, it asks if the file should be be saved (is it interpreting it as Ctrl+D = EOF?). I have a windows box on the network and launched KDE gui shell remotely (via xserver). Even in this case, the 'd' key is swallowed.

Environment: SUSE Linux 9.3; PS/2 keyboard

What I tried: I switched a couple of PS/2 keyboards (swapping keyboards when the system is shutdown; no hot swapping)

My current workaround: I'm using PuTTY from a windows machine. I've also mounted my linux harddrive as a network drive and editing using VS and using PuTTY to build.

Is this related? I started up my linux box after a ten day hiatus and the system booted into maintenance mode. I ran fsck as advised and remounted the drive for R+W. After that I hit "Ctrl+D" to shutdown the system. The system worked normally after that, except for the problem with the 'd' key reported above.

Any ideas what may be causing this 'd' key trapping? Since the problem occurs with multiple ps/2 keyboards and even from a remote xwindows session, this may not be hardware problem. Probably some configuration somewhere...

<ctrl>d is a logout command.

I see what you are saying but I dont understand why it would be doing this....

avoiding the "d" key isn't an option.....

does it do this in pure safemode or single-user mode?

Sorry, misread the post.

Hmmm...
I can't imagine why that would be happening.

Have you checked your key bindings?

If you have another hard drive with another OS on it, you could try to put it in that same machine and see if the D key is still causing problems. If it does, then you know it's not related to any configuration or OS/application problems or bugs, and you know it's not related to the keyboard itself (since you tried it with other keyboards), so maybe it's a problem with the keyboard controller on the motherboard? If so, that seems like something you could replace without buying a whole new motherboard; although I don't know much about that kind of hardware.

Is the D key the only key that gives you problems?

maybe the ctrl button is pushed in all the time?


have you tried a different keyboard?

Yeah, it's possible that your keyboard is defective and your control button is registering as depressed, even if it's not. I spilled some soda on my keyboard once and a similar thing happen.

Charred wins the prize :-)

I checked the keyboard bindings and somehow, the "Halt without confirmation" action is bound to the 'D' key. No idea how that got set, but removing that binding fixed the problem.

Appreciate all of your suggestions.

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hi

i'm new with linux,

i would like to ask, how can i disable CTRL+ESC
in PCLinuxOS with KDE?

hope this is not too off-topic.

ok, how can i check my key bindings in KDE?

thanks and more power to linux.

I don't think think it's too off topic, but then I'm not the OP. Personally, I would welcome a good keybindings discussion.

BTW, what does Ctrl+ESC do in KDE (which KDE?) in PCLinuxOS? I'm running MEPIS 3.3.2 / KDE 3.3.2, & when I try Ctrl+ESC nothing happens.

Thats what they want you to think.

...MWAHAHAHAHAHA

In Suse, at least, Ctrl+Esc pops up the KDE System Guard app, which I find is a very useful feature.