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Numpad died with gnome 2.6.0

Hi everyone. This morning I turned on my computer and started up gnome only to find that my / key didn't work! The num lock light comes on on my keyboard but just about everything on it doesn't work (except I think the enter key)

It works fine with other guis (KDE etc) I was wondering if you guys have heard of any bugs?

Thanks for your time!

Adam

Did you compare the relevant xinitrc.* files in /etc/X11/xinit, by luck it may be a X resource not loaded, also did you try to choose a gtkrc file in /etc/gtk and copy it to your ~/.gtkrc ?

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Did you compare the relevant xinitrc.* files in /etc/X11/xinit, by luck it may be a X resource not loaded

They look pretty much identical.

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did you try to choose a gtkrc file in /etc/gtk and copy it to your ~/.gtkrc ?

I don´t understand exactly what that does... and hence which file to choose!, this is a list of my gtk directory:

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adam@darkstar:/etc/gtk$ ls
gtkrc.az gtkrc.hy gtkrc.ru
gtkrc.be@ gtkrc.iso-8859-13 gtkrc.ru_RU.iso88595@
gtkrc.bg@ gtkrc.iso-8859-14 gtkrc.sk@
gtkrc.bg_BG.iso88595@ gtkrc.iso-8859-15 gtkrc.sl@
gtkrc.cp1251 gtkrc.iso-8859-2 gtkrc.sp@
gtkrc.cp1255 gtkrc.iso-8859-5 gtkrc.sq@
gtkrc.cs@ gtkrc.ja gtkrc.sr@
gtkrc.cy@ gtkrc.ka@ gtkrc.th
gtkrc.el gtkrc.ka_GE.georgianacademy gtkrc.tr
gtkrc.eo gtkrc.ka_GE.georgianps gtkrc.uk
gtkrc.et@ gtkrc.ko gtkrc.vi@
gtkrc.ga@ gtkrc.lt@ gtkrc.vi_VN.tcvn
gtkrc.he gtkrc.lv@ gtkrc.vi_VN.viscii
gtkrc.he_IL.cp1255@ gtkrc.mi@ gtkrc.vi_VN.viscii111@
gtkrc.he_IL.microsoftcp1255@ gtkrc.mk@ gtkrc.yi@
gtkrc.hr@ gtkrc.pl@ gtkrc.zh_CN
gtkrc.hu@ gtkrc.ro@ gtkrc.zh_TW.big5
adam@darkstar:/etc/gtk$

My question is why was it working before?? What has changed??
Thanks for your time!

That happens with all on gnome or the gnome console (or terminal)?

Try copy /etc/gtk/gtkrc.sp to ~/.gtkrc

It didn´t work... I have kind of abandoned gnome now... back to good old fluxbox, at least nothing strange happens with fluxbox!!!!!!!

Just for all of you out there reading this, I figured it out. If you push Control-Shift-NumLock it turns on keypad mouse (which oviously turns off the keypads other funcions)

:D

Wow, I never knew that! Any way to speed up that cursor?

I don´t think so, but maby you can... its not that slow!