scim and keyboard input issues still

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 08:17 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >   
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>     
> >>> F10 - KDE
> >>>
> >>> I am pretty much working but since I installed scim and am switching
> >>> between Chinese and English, I can no longer use some of my keys...
> >>>
> >>> <DELETE>     doesn't appear to do anything
> >>> <Arrow Up>   doesn't appear to do anything
> >>> <Arrow Down> appears to perform like pressing <Enter>
> >>>
> >>> yet if I open xev, I can see the keycodes are being sent.
> >>>
> >>> and if I quit scim, it doesn't fix anything.
> >>>
> >>> I think this happened once I configured KDE systemsettings and added
> >>> Chinese language but I removed it now and still, no change. Setup in
> >>> systemsettings/Region & Language only shows US English and keyboard is
> >>> still Evdev-managed keyboard and only USA layout.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Well....
> >>
> >> I don't have your problems but I don't have your settings either....
> >>
> >> In "Region & Language" I have nothing installed.  Above the box were
> >> languages would be listed it shows: "Country or Region: Not set (Generic
> >> English).  My keyboard layout is "Disabled".
> >>     
> >>> So I can't figure out that even if I apparently quit scim and put things
> >>> back to normal now in KDE systemsettings, why can I not use some of my
> >>> keys?
> >>>       
> > ----
> > I think it can only be caused by either a settings change or a package
> > installation and knowing that the key behavior is both GNOME & KDE
> > (happens in Evolution, OpenOffice, Konsole and every other program I
> > try), I don't think this is a systemsettings thing but I removed the
> > Chinese keyboard in Regional & Language/Keyboard and unset the country
> > or region setting to 'not set (Generic English)' like yours. I cannot
> > remove the US English installed language and have logged off and logged
> > back on but no change.
> >
> > these are the only packages that I have installed in the past few
> > days...
> >
> > lesstif-0.95.0-26.fc10.i386
> > libXp-devel-1.0.0-11.fc9.i386
> > lesstif-devel-0.95.0-26.fc10.i386
> > 1:openoffice.org-langpack-zh_CN-3.0.1-15.4.fc10.i386
> > kde-l10n-Chinese-4.2.3-1.fc10.noarch
> > scim-libs-1.4.7-35.fc10.i386
> > libgxim-0.3.2-4.fc10.i386
> > imsettings-libs-0.105.1-4.fc10.i386
> > imsettings-0.105.1-4.fc10.i386
> > im-chooser-1.2.5-1.fc10.i386
> > scim-1.4.7-35.fc10.i386
> > scim-pinyin-0.5.91-25.fc9.i386
> > scim-python-0.1.13rc1-1.fc10.i386
> > scim-python-pinyin-0.1.13rc1-1.fc10.i386
> > python-openoffice-0.1-0.2.20090228svn34.fc10.noarch
> >
> > Thanks...I am at a loss as to what is causing this but it's irritating
> > not to be able to use the 'delete' key.
> >   
> Maybe try one thing?
> 
> Just for a test, create a new user and test with that to see if there is
> a difference.
----
yes a difference...new user does not have the problem so maybe it is
related to systemsettings in KDE. Good thought

Craig


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