[conspire] (forw) Re: [Felton LUG] Keyboard woes fixed

[Rick Moen]

So classic.

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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:00:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: 'Meg McRoberts' via Felton LUG <felton-lug at googlegroups.com>
To: "felton-lug at googlegroups.com" <felton-lug at googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Felton LUG] Keyboard woes fixed

This is a follow-up, especially good for those of you who are needing a good laughon a Tuesday afternoon...
Remember that I posted that I had a bunch of very strange keyboard issues -- sometimesit worked perfectly, sometimes it virtually didn't work at all.  One more exceedingly strangesymptom:  the keyboard worked perfectly for the Washington Post crossword puzzles, evenwhen it didn't work at all for other tasks.
Discussions of hardware versus software ensued, all very interesting... 

Today I realized that I had two USB keyboards plugged into the same computer!  A few\weeks ago, I spilled something on my keyboard.  I just shoved it out of the way andplugged in a new one and kind of forgot about the other one.  But today, I was tidying upthe desk a bit and saw that the old keyboard was plugged in.  I unplugged it and voila,the other keyboard seems to be working perfectly!
Maybe not QUITE as bad as the old SCO Follies skit where the user kept adding CDsinto the drive rather than removing one before putting the next one in but I think it's aclose contender.  And actually kind of interesting to try to figure out how the system handlesthe presence of two keyboards -- it wasn't usually possible before USB keyboards, I suppose...
So thanks for all your thoughts and I apologize for frittering away so many brain cells on anid10t issue!  Laugh away!
meg

 
      From: 'Meg McRoberts' via Felton LUG <felton-lug at googlegroups.com>
 To: "felton-lug at googlegroups.com" <felton-lug at googlegroups.com> 
 Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 9:27 PM
 Subject: [Felton LUG] Keyboard woes -- what stupid thing did I do?
   

My keyboard is not working.  I'm running kubuntu 14.04. It had beenfine but, when I got home from work, I can't type anything on web pagesor move between workspaces with ctrl-F<n>.
I swapped out the keyboard, rebooted the computer, and went intoSystem Preferences -> Input devices -> Keyboard and reset to defaults(I did not intentionally reset anything but I thought this might help.
In a konsole window, it does let me type, but it inserts an "s" beforeevery character.  So, if I try to type abcde, I get:
     sasbscsdse
Does anyone know what that means or how to fix it?
Many thanks!meg


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