kybd input suddenly not working after login; OK if 'startx' from console
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Richard, since your mouse still works, try this:
Open something like the file manager. Clear the address area
and then right click it. You will get the option to select 'input method.'
Depending on what your options are in that dropdown menu, try XIM as you most certainly have that option. If not or if that doesn't change anything, try the others and then report back your findings../peter
while i'm poking abt, it dawns on me that this might well be a result of something starting differently (or not at all) on auto/complete-login-to-desktop vs. login-to-console-then-startx ...
question:
on autologin, is the X launch actually invoked "simply" w/ startx? isn't a different script responsible for launch?
Richard, are you booting to runlevel 3 and then invoking <startx> OR using autologin where when you boot, your system goes directly to the desktop? Have you tried setting your system to boot to runlevel 5 with the graphical login? As far as what code autologin invokes, that I can't tell you off the top of my head. Autologin is a function of KDE's kconfig login mngr. I would think that it invokes startkde which I believe is separate from the standard startx but I'm not THAT familiar with the inner workings of KDE code.
> are you booting to runlevel 3 and then invoking <startx> OR using autologin where when you boot, your system goes directly to the desktop?
both. in the former case, no troubles. in the latter -- no typing!
> Have you tried setting your system to boot to runlevel 5 with the graphical login? As far as what code autologin invokes, that I can't tell you off the top of my head. Autologin is a function of KDE's kconfig login mngr. I would think that it invokes startkde which I believe is separate from the standard startx but I'm not THAT familiar with the inner workings of KDE code.
turns out that this is, in fact, a known/new issue. finally found a ref @:
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