Keyboard doesn't work correctly in kde or gnome

dokterneo · 06-26-2003, 07:48 PM

When I boot up to slackware 9.0, the keyboard behaves fine in the console. But as soon as I startx in eitherr kde or gnome, my keys type double characters if I type too fasst.

It kinda looks like tthis and iits reeally frustratinng. But thiis onlly happeens when running xwwindows. I aam using aa toshiba satalite pro 6100 with a nvidia 420.

i have set kbdrate to -r 30 -d 500 and it doesn't help the problem. Ii even turn the repeat off in preferences, and I sttill gett tthis crrap.

Coulld someone please help?

nevaeh · 08-14-2003, 10:24 PM

As you will be aoouut to see I aam havinng the same prroblem. Soo If you find anything pllease llet me know annd Ill doo the saame. Itss actuually kind of nicee too typpe aand not have to worry about the double lleteers b/c I kknow you wont care. Anyways good luck..

dokterneo · 08-15-2003, 08:09 AM

OK, the fix is really, easy! But hard to find documentation for. Edit your XF86Config file, probably /etc/X11/DF86Config and add the following line under

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"

Option "XkbDisable"

I definitely feel your pain. It took me a month before I got this one. It was so discouraging, I almost gave up on Linux.... Almost...