Help

Streagan2 · 01-18-2005, 10:34 AM

I was working on some code in IntelliJ in my Gnome interface on Fedora Core 3 when suddenly my keyboard stopped functioning. No problem with the keyboard - it works everywhere but in Gnome. I've tried rebooting etc. but as soon as I've typed in my password to log in that's it - no keyboard. Keyboard works fine in Gnome if I log in as root and works in KDE etc. but not for my user id under Gnome.
Quite frustrating - any ideas?

Matthew

bamboo_spider · 01-20-2005, 01:04 AM

I came to this forum precisely for this help as well

seems like we are out on a leg , maybe we should try a windows solution - uninstall and reinstall ??
Will have to check if my gnome works as root though !!

bamboo_spider · 01-20-2005, 10:57 PM

Hi
There seems to be a very crude solution which may or may not work - it has worked for me.
Log into to your session using anyother desktop environment kde , xfce etc open terminal and do"switchdesk gnome"

it will say gnome is running, use it for a bit
go back to terminal and log out and relogin in gnome now

it should work fine

further don't ask why it work or what happens, I have no idea

regards

otakuprinzess · 01-21-2005, 01:39 AM

I've had this problem myself, too.
What I ended up doing was to take all my home files and create a new user account. Everything's back to normal....

Streagan2 · 01-22-2005, 04:22 AM

There is a directory called /home/matthew/.gconf/desktop/gnome/accessibility (obviously substitute your own user name for 'matthew'!). If you delete the directory 'accessibility' your keyboard comes back and functions normally - and you seem to lose nothing else. All features function as normal.

Hope this helps someone else avoid the schlep I've gone through!

otakuprinzess · 01-23-2005, 12:54 AM

Thats nice and interesting..I wonder what causes this problem?

Jecoen · 02-06-2006, 04:04 PM

There is a directory under your home directory ".gconf/desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboard" there is a file "%gconf.xml" this file is corrupt if you remove it your keyboard will work. The solution I used is to get this file from another user and copy it in your path. I don't know why but some installations mess with this file and change the entry enable from "false" to "true". And adds other entries.

thanks to Streagan2 for the hint!!

regards,