loweR case R key not woRking

silverchris · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: loweR case R key not woRking

First I would like to apologize for the capitalized Rs in this message(I tried to get them all with spell check) . The key isn't working. My computer Refuses to type the lower case R in most X applications. It works in my enlightenment 17 Run box but seemingly no where else. It works fine in the Root account and out of XoRg. EveRy where else it does not work. xev doesn't even report that it is the lower case R key while when I log in as Root it does. As you could imagine it is a pretty big problem I would like to try and get solved soon as possible. It has me completely stumped
Thanks,
SilveRchRis

GivePeaceAChance · Guru Joined: 26 May 2007 Posts: 480

That's strange, since your post exhibits both lower-case r's and upper-case R's. So it seems to be working some of the time. I'm a bit confused though. There's no such thing as a lower-case r key. Just an 'R' key that, with the help of Shift (in most/all cases) can become upper- or lower-case. Have you tried using a different keyboard?

massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

lagalopex · Guru Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 562

silverchris · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

firefox, kde apps, Xtem,pidgin, xchat. those are the ones I have tried so far. Er7 has no problem itself when I press the r key in the run dialog. also without X running it works fine.

RoundsToZero · Guru Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 478 Location: New York, NY

Here have some of mine

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PM me if you need more

nicta2 · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 30

I've had this problem a few times, if you open a menu in gnome, and press a key, that key gets assigned to the menu entry currently highlighted.

Find it and press BACKSPACE to remove it.

frenkel · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 1034 Location: .nl

silverchris · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

Its not set as a hotkey for anything. I think something to do with the keyboard layout or settings is screwed up but I don't know where to check.

Adekoba_old · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 10

lol, i love these kind of threads

silverchris · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject:

It randomly started working again. I am now really wondering how it could happen. IT couldn't have been a hardware problem cause it still worked outside of X.

RoundsToZero · Guru Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 478 Location: New York, NY

Adekoba_old · n00b Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 10

gerardo · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

I had a similar effect when playing around with xmodmap.
Everytime I set a .Xmodmap in my home folder I'm losing the z and x key...
The only solution I have is to rename .Xmodmap to .myXmodmap
Then it works.
The problem only occurs in Metacity, not in Beryl.

edit: switched to lineakd
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