Bug 50975 – After emerging xorg-x11 users can't enter text in any gnome application

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Slobodan D. Sredojevic 2004-05-13 13:54:34 UTC]

Hi,

Did emerge -C xfree and after that emerge xorg-x11. After that it is imposible to enter any texts in any gnome application I have tried (gnome-terminal,gedit,nautilus etc.). This is only for non-root users. Root user is fine. Had development-sources 2.6.3 kernel and with xfree 4.3 everything was fine. Also last night emerged 2.6.6 kernel but no change.

Both kernels have:

CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256

Also, found in one forum's thread a tip to add users to tty group in /etc/groups but no go.

This transition xfree-->x.org should be smooth. Thank you for your work.

[Comment 1 Stephane Loeuillet 2004-06-11 06:44:42 UTC]

i also had this one in the early gnome 2.6+xorg days

i "fixed" it when i removed my gconf directories related to multimedia keys
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/
or one of its subdirs, don't remember

then, it went fine

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-06-11 10:27:42 UTC]

yep this is probably your x keybord settings

[Comment 3 Tero Taipale 2005-06-02 01:33:12 UTC]

 I can confirm that the solution in reply #2 works. For me, the problem started
after upgrading to the masked xorg-x11 builds (6.8.99.*).

 Input to non-gtk apps (terminals etc) worked fine.

 Removing .gconf/.../keyboard directory fixed the problem.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-03-31 19:15:09 UTC]

Reassigning to gnome to see if they want to do anything since it's a gconf/ gnome xkb settings issue.

[Comment 5 Saleem Abdulrasool (RETIRED) 2006-05-03 23:26:04 UTC]

xorg-x11 is stable at this point, seeing as the issue was a configuration issue, and no one else has reported issues, marking this as invalid.