On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Laing, Robin > > <robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca <mailto:robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>> > wrote: > > > > On 2014-06-22 13:20, JD wrote: > > > Using Mate on FC20, with latest updates. > > > Cntrl-Alt-F keys never worked from the very first login into > > Mate Desktop. > > > > > > These are the installed mate packages. Am I missing something? > > > > > > It my be worthwhile to note that at the login screen, > > Cntrl-Alt-F keys DO > > > WORK!! > > > After login, into mate desktop, they stop working. > > > > > > > Is there something that is happening to the keyboard mapping? My > > keyboards require a function key to be set to use the Function > > keys. Is > > this being reset when Mate starts? > > > > > > showkey can be used to see if they are working. > > > > On my keyboard, if the F lock button is not pushed, then the keys > send > > anything. > > > > > > xkeycaps as well. > > > > > > > > > > My KB is the laptop's KB (Dell Latitude E6500) > > There is no F-Lock key that I can see. > > Tried showkey and pressed Cntrl-Alt-F2 > > > > > > # showkey > > kb mode was ?UNKNOWN? > > [ if you are trying this under X, it might not work > > since the X server is also reading /dev/console ] > > press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)... > > > > By the above warning, it seems useless to try showkey under X > > But here goes .... > > > > keycode 29 press > > keycode 56 press > > keycode 60 press > > keycode 60 release > > keycode 56 release > > keycode 29 release > > > > And still no effect. > > > > xkeycaps fails to detect my type of keyboard and assumes a 101 key PC > > keyboard, > > which is not the case. > > > > The GUI does not allow scrolling the KB type list so I can select the > > right KB. > > I tried to scroll it with the mouse and with the up/down arrow keys to > > not avail. I tried to drage the scroll bar of each columns in the KB > > config GUI, > > again to no avail. > > > > > maybe modify your keyboard layout?? > > > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/37617/how-to-change-the-keyboard-layout-permanently/ > > If you didn't have the graphical way or localectl. You could edit or > create the file /etc/locale.conf and if you were en_US.UTF-8 (replace > with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent). You would place in > /etc/locale.conf > > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > > Also you would edit or create the file /etc/vconsole.conf and if you > were in the U.S.A (replace with the Spanish-Latin America equivalent). > You would place in /etc/vconsole.conf > The real question is: Why did not Anaconda correctly detect my KB type so that programs like xkeycaps would not have to guess the wrong KB type?
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