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Model Specific Forums => Cosmo Communicator => Cosmo Communicator - Linux => Topic started by: Stephen Quoll on July 06, 2020, 10:26:55 am
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Hello all, hopefully I'm just doing something silly but I'm stumped.
When I change my keyboard layout to "Planet | Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" my 'r' key no longer works. It sometimes closes dialogs, it causes the mouse cursor to appear, but no 'r'.
I change to any other layout, it works fine (but obviously most of the rest of the keyboard then doesn't). I've got a US-layout keyboard.
Anyone else experienced this weirdness or has any ideas?
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Hello all, hopefully I'm just doing something silly but I'm stumped.
When I change my keyboard layout to "Planet | Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" my 'r' key no longer works. It sometimes closes dialogs, it causes the mouse cursor to appear, but no 'r'.
I change to any other layout, it works fine (but obviously most of the rest of the keyboard then doesn't). I've got a US-layout keyboard.
Anyone else experienced this weirdness or has any ideas?
Probably not only "r" , but c ( vol down ), b (vol up ), and all with Fn functions . I had this problem when I have installed exagear and it changed some directories and files . Problem is /usr/share/X11/xkb/ . Inside this directory are subdirectories : compat, geometry, keycodes, rules, symbols and types. I will put here the bck of these directories, but mine I have changed to use accents and I am using the gemini keyboard and not cosmo. Also I have a backup of the original gemini keyboard inside /usr/share/xkb/symbols/planet_vndr. You must rename gemini.bck to gemini. Please make a backup of xkb first . You must reboot cosmo after the changes Good luck
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Hello all, hopefully I'm just doing something silly but I'm stumped.
When I change my keyboard layout to "Planet | Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" my 'r' key no longer works. It sometimes closes dialogs, it causes the mouse cursor to appear, but no 'r'.
I change to any other layout, it works fine (but obviously most of the rest of the keyboard then doesn't). I've got a US-layout keyboard.
Anyone else experienced this weirdness or has any ideas?
Probably not only "r" , but c ( vol down ), b (vol up ), and all with Fn functions . I had this problem when I have installed exagear and it changed some directories and files . Problem is /usr/share/X11/xkb/ . Inside this directory are subdirectories : compat, geometry, keycodes, rules, symbols and types. I will put here the bck of these directories, but mine I have changed to use accents and I am using the gemini keyboard and not cosmo. Also I have a backup of the original gemini keyboard inside /usr/share/xkb/symbols/planet_vndr. You must rename gemini.bck to gemini. Please make a backup of xkb first . You must reboot cosmo after the changes Good luck
Thank you for the reply! I wanted it to be that simple, but I think I might be dealing with something else.
The cosmo symbol file in that tarball was the same as what I had with no change when I tried it (just 'r' not working). I moved gemini.bck to gemini and tried it too; 'r', 't', 'c', 'v', 'b', 'n' and 'm' stop working in that configuration.
I might be at the 'back everything up and try a reinstall' stage.
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Hello all, hopefully I'm just doing something silly but I'm stumped.
When I change my keyboard layout to "Planet | Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" my 'r' key no longer works. It sometimes closes dialogs, it causes the mouse cursor to appear, but no 'r'.
I change to any other layout, it works fine (but obviously most of the rest of the keyboard then doesn't). I've got a US-layout keyboard.
Anyone else experienced this weirdness or has any ideas?
Probably not only "r" , but c ( vol down ), b (vol up ), and all with Fn functions . I had this problem when I have installed exagear and it changed some directories and files . Problem is /usr/share/X11/xkb/ . Inside this directory are subdirectories : compat, geometry, keycodes, rules, symbols and types. I will put here the bck of these directories, but mine I have changed to use accents and I am using the gemini keyboard and not cosmo. Also I have a backup of the original gemini keyboard inside /usr/share/xkb/symbols/planet_vndr. You must rename gemini.bck to gemini. Please make a backup of xkb first . You must reboot cosmo after the changes Good luck
Thank you for the reply! I wanted it to be that simple, but I think I might be dealing with something else.
The cosmo symbol file in that tarball was the same as what I had with no change when I tried it (just 'r' not working). I moved gemini.bck to gemini and tried it too; 'r', 't', 'c', 'v', 'b', 'n' and 'm' stop working in that configuration.
I might be at the 'back everything up and try a reinstall' stage.
You have to copy all the subdirectories, not only the cosmo or gemini file inside symbols. And select the correct keyboard ( cosmo in your case ) in the kde configuration. But you can also reinstall the linux from the boot menu. So you will be sure that is not a software problem. Good luck.
Other cause maybe is that you have attributed a shortcut using the Fn key in kde configuration ( Fn + r ) to a program. You cannot use the Fn key as shortcut. You must use ALT instead. This is another issue that may cause your problem. Please reset to the defaut configuration in KDE.
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When I change my keyboard layout to "Planet | Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator" my 'r' key no longer works. It sometimes closes dialogs, it causes the mouse cursor to appear, but no 'r'.
I change to any other layout, it works fine (but obviously most of the rest of the keyboard then doesn't). I've got a US-layout keyboard.
Hello, do you have several language keymaps available ? If yes, remove those you do not need, reboot and retry.
I had some problems with cosmo keyboard type with FR and US languages available (I added FR but didn't removed US).
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I ended up reinstalling, and everything is working now.
I took a backup first though, and did a recursive diff of /usr/share/X11 with what I had before and after the reinstall. The only difference was the modified gemini symbol files, that weren't used.
I had multiple layouts defined at one point, but had since removed all but US, and only had the standard shortcuts. I thought I'd removed most of KDE's config too as a test before reinstalling, but didn't keep a copy of the broken config to trawl through. Since I suspect that's where the issue was, I have now and will look carefully if it happens again
Now on to see if I can get more things working!