Peter Berrie
2016-03-12 10:39:03 UTC
This is what happens consequent on having reconfigured the keyboard in debian using dpkg, having moved to a Mac aluminum keyboard.
At startup when entering name and password, the return key works fine. Once in Fluxbox however it doesn't work at all by itself.
In openoffice, shift + return sends line feed.
The enter key, on the keypad, sends paragraph.
Using xev it does not show a normal keycode.
This is across all users, so its not a user issue. It happens across all applications, openoffice, terminal, browser. Its also not a mac keyboard issue. I have a debian install running in the next room with MATE and that works just fine with the same keyboard.
In a terminal the first hit of the return key changes the cursor to a small static rectangle. Hitting it again changes it back to an ordinary cursor. Also in this situation, hitting the enter key again also returns it to the usual cursor.
Hitting the return key once disables the popup menu with right click.
Its as if hitting the return key is toggling focus in some way.
This not only happens with linux apps, it also happens with windows apps running in VirtualBox. However, if Porteus is started up from windowmaker, the return key then works fine.
Trying to figure out this, I started up openbox. It works normally. I also started up windowmaker, and everything works perfectly normally there. I have tried doing a complete removal using synaptic, followed by reinstall, but its still the same problem.
There seems to be something happening with Fluxbox that is somehow capturing the return key when pressed by itself. But what? I have googled without finding anything informative.
Any ideas?
I had another problem which may be related, for completeness. I used to have a bunch of key shortcuts by editing fluxbox/keys. These used crtl + alt as the modifier. Well, they no longer work, and even changing them to the xev key codes for left ctrl and left alt doesn't work either.
Al
At startup when entering name and password, the return key works fine. Once in Fluxbox however it doesn't work at all by itself.
In openoffice, shift + return sends line feed.
The enter key, on the keypad, sends paragraph.
Using xev it does not show a normal keycode.
This is across all users, so its not a user issue. It happens across all applications, openoffice, terminal, browser. Its also not a mac keyboard issue. I have a debian install running in the next room with MATE and that works just fine with the same keyboard.
In a terminal the first hit of the return key changes the cursor to a small static rectangle. Hitting it again changes it back to an ordinary cursor. Also in this situation, hitting the enter key again also returns it to the usual cursor.
Hitting the return key once disables the popup menu with right click.
Its as if hitting the return key is toggling focus in some way.
This not only happens with linux apps, it also happens with windows apps running in VirtualBox. However, if Porteus is started up from windowmaker, the return key then works fine.
Trying to figure out this, I started up openbox. It works normally. I also started up windowmaker, and everything works perfectly normally there. I have tried doing a complete removal using synaptic, followed by reinstall, but its still the same problem.
There seems to be something happening with Fluxbox that is somehow capturing the return key when pressed by itself. But what? I have googled without finding anything informative.
Any ideas?
I had another problem which may be related, for completeness. I used to have a bunch of key shortcuts by editing fluxbox/keys. These used crtl + alt as the modifier. Well, they no longer work, and even changing them to the xev key codes for left ctrl and left alt doesn't work either.
Al