KDE Keyboard Issues
 

I just switched from Gnome to KDE... Gnome was giving me too many headaches (dropline installed things I didn´t want.. various other installation scripts didn´t do the job, either... )

I got everything set up the way I like it, and I just noticed an issue... Whenever I try to press the apostrophe key (to the right of the semi-colon) to get an apostrophe, none shows up... I have to hit it twice to get an apostrophe on the screen. The problem only shows up in KDE... It works when I´m not running X and when I use another X interface...

Since I´m so new to KDE, I don´t know where to begin diagnostics. I tried to play with the keyboard layouts, and nothing changed...

Any ideas?

Thanks everyone,
James

Slackware 10.1
KDE 3.4

* FIXED
 

Well, I took the extreme route... I decided I would remove all the kde settings files from my home directory, and then reinstall KDE if necessary... After repeating the configuration wizard, the key worked normally...

Still have no idea why it happened, but I'm just glad I've got everything to the way it should be...

Thanks,
James

Any chance you could tell me which items that you didn't want in Dropline? I'm interested for the purpose of evaluating all of the items that we include. Your insight would be appreciated.

Sorry zborgerd... I'm not a contributing member, so I can't PM you...

But anyway, dropline....

First and foremost, it installed PAM, and tinkered with rc.local... I don't like anything that does that...

Second, I didn't like that Dropline included Firefox and a few other programs... I know that the selective update feature allowed me to choose whether or not to install/update the packages, and told me whether or not they were required for dropline, but I don't think that Dropline should be including anything outside of the required gnome dependencies and gnome.

Third, slapt-get... I use slapt-get (with many listed exclusions in my slapt-get configuration), to check and install upgrades to my system. There were several times I would update a package with slapt-get only to find dropline wanted to update it... And then slapt-get would want to update it again... I don't like having a computer that is never "up to date" :)

Fourth, I started noticing changes to performance after the last update I installed... Still not too sure what happened. Instead of tracking the problem down (which I should have done as a fairly capable programmer who owes the OSS community a little more than I give), I decided I would switch to the newest KDE, which I had been hearing great things about.

Now, I do need to say that Dropline really is a wonderful tool for people to use when they want gnome, now that Pat's getting rid of it... Pat really wants to give people the most secure machine possible, which is great, but for most Desktop linux users, we want the flashy new stuff half the time. The work that the dropline crew does is really something they deserve a little more credit for (although the guys at gnome should get their act together and start making their product easier to install)...

If dropline wants to start including so much extra software, they should really start their own distribution, but as I recall there are mixed opinions on that...

Hmm.. so that's what I think of dropline, really... As the saying goes: It's not you, dropline, it's me!

-James