's' key not working with new Gentoo install. [solved]

cwc · Last edited by cwc on Fri Jan 01, 2016 1:51 pm; edited 6 times in total

's' key not working with GDM install.
The 's" works from terminal on boot but not after a startx is issued and Gnome(GDM) starts.
Gnome3 + systemd

I copied all the s's

- switched keyboards
- set locale to "US"

Note: terminal is not working after set the keyboard to "US"
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valentind · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2015 Posts: 4

I also have problem on an old install that I have just upgraded. 's' key does not work in GDM. Work-around is to use "alt-s" which types a s. In Gnome 3, both 's' and 'l' keys are bound respectively to opening the on-screen keyboard, and opening help. Work-around is to bind those actions to other short cuts.

cwc · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:54 pm Post subject:

valentind · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2015 Posts: 4

Caps-Lock on, and shift-s?

cwc · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:19 pm Post subject:

cwc · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:08 pm Post subject:

deleted this post - not relevant
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cwc · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:33 pm Post subject:

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cwc · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:32 am Post subject:

cwc · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:55 pm Post subject:

Starting with gnome-base/gnome-session-2.26.2, users will need to prepend the XDG_MENU_PREFIX variable to get the GNOME menus when using the ~/.xinitrc method to start the desktop. If ~/.xinitrc is not being used it will be handled automatically; no additional configuration is needed.

user $sed -i '1i\export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-' ~/.xinitrc

[solved]:
I removed :

cwc · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:56 pm Post subject:

- reinstalled gnome3

- same results

- 's' key does not work
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cwc · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 1:54 pm Post subject:

[solved]

mv 00-keyboard.conf out of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
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szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3494

And what the content of this file was?

cwc · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:59 pm Post subject:

doug_ca · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2016 Posts: 4

I have tried the above suggestions
- assigning the on screen keyboard shortcut (in Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts) to other values, as well as disabling them
- removing the XDG_MENU_PREFIX variable from ~/.xinitrc
- moving 00-keyboard.conf out of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

however I still have to use caps-shift to type "s" in Gnome. I should note that i did not have GDM installed when trying these, but have since installed it hoping it might resolve the problem - it did not.

Would anyone be able to offer other suggestions?

flex1911 · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:43 pm Post subject:

doug_ca · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2016 Posts: 4

I recently emerged to 3.18 from 3.16 (gnome, gdm, etc.) and am still having this problem. Also, the "r" key does not work at the login screen - but works once logged in.

doug_ca · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2016 Posts: 4

I found that disabling media-keys as suggested here

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1034240.html

worked for me. The "s" key can now be used in Gnome. To save future readers a click, the solution is to use gnome-base/dconf-editor to modify

org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/active

to false. There is also a bug for this issue here:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560346