On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 22:18:51 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...]
> I started up gdm to give myself choices on sessions (to test fully > whether this was a problem across the board with WM's) and found things > working properly across the board. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&! > > Go figure. Using gdm enables the keys. Without gdm, no go. Several > oddities: > > I notice as I write this note is that the keyboard is no longer > inputting as UTF-8 encoding (i.e. I don't have to hit a space to have a > quote mark print on its own instead of generating an umlaut, etc). > > Also, trying to start a gnome session failed--iceWM came up instead of > Metacity, and the gnome session part froze. > > Lastly, VT 7 is not being used by gdm--8 is being used. ???? > > But now I can switch VT's as desired as long as gdm is running. > > So am I correct in assuming that gdm has somehow caused this problem? I > was using it for a while but decided to stop it, opting for a leaner > approach to things. I don't recall when that was relative to noticing > the switching terminal problem. So it sort of works at the moment. I do not know the interactions between gdm, the window managers and Xorg well enough to guess whose "fault" this behavior is. However, a recent post of Kent West has reminded me of something that I had forgotten. It might help to remove the xlibs package; see here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg02398.html -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
