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stupid keyboard question



I've confirmed that this is a KDE-specific problem. That lime green window 
manager's xterm worked perfectly.

-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, David Backeberg wrote:

> Hey list:
>
> So I now own a Dell Latitude D610 laptop. I have a funky keyboard issue.
>
> In my tty consoles, my key mapping is perfect. My real problem is in KDE, 
> with the )B?/? key, which may look funny in your mailer. Somehow my apostrophe 
> / quote key generates a character other than the one that bash interprets as 
> a single or double quote, and therefore, any bash commands I type involving 
> commands with quotes aren)B?t properly interpreted.
>
> I)B?m using KDE 3.4.2, built from source with xorg 6.8.2.
>
> I think my problems are either in my xorg.conf or in my KDE settings, but I)B?m 
> really not sure where best to look for my problems. My problems may also be 
> due to some weirdness involving the Dell laptop keyboard.
>
> I)B?m looking for suggestions for where to begin my search for the solution. My 
> apostrophe woes aren)B?t limited to konsole, but apply to all applications run 
> within KDE, and possibly X. I)B?m going to run a non-KDE X session now to try 
> to determine whether my problem is KDE-specific.
>
> Thanks!
>
>



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