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Hell-Razor
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 Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:10 am Post subject: Not able to use arrow keys anymore... |
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I have a strange problem here and I have no idea what I did to cause it (eek). One day I noticed in things like x-chat and pidgin and oo and others that i cannot use my arrow keys to move the curser. now i dont know where to start or how to better expain this. the keyboard is working just fine but eh?
i can use the arrow keys in games like wow and wc3 to navigate just fine - it just seems like my machine doesnt know when i use the arrow keys in text to move the curser...
any ideas?
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Xerionn
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| Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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My guess would be that you use evdev.
So change your keyboard model to evdev-managed keyboard from your DE's settings.
Hopefully this fixes it ... |
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Hell-Razor
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what does DE mean when you said "your DE's settings"
oh and im not sure if i use evdev or not but when i emerge -s it i get this
| Code: | * x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
Latest version available: 2.1.0
Latest version installed: 2.1.0
Size of files: 269 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: Generic Linux input driver
License: xf86-input-evdev |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| DE stands for Desktop environment so go to your KDE/Gnome/etc keyboard manager and set as kayboard evdev managed ... |
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