evolution, galeon, RH 8.0, garbled keyboard, etc.

[Grant McDorman]

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On April 17, 2003 12:24 am, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> In addition to my earlier post, after a restart of the machine in
> runlevel 3, I restored the 'old' vnc/xstartup to
>
> exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> (that is without the 'unset' and 'gnome-session')

Probably not relevant.

> and started the server.
> As expected, evo and galeon show up nicely on the remote terminal in
> this case. However, the garbled keyboard remains garbled for non-root
> only; to my big surprise (and dismay).

There is something in the user startup that does an xmodmap, using the key 
codes for your physical keyboard (which are *not* the same as Xvnc). Find 
that and disable it and you should be fine.

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Grant McDorman <grant.mcdorman@cedara.com>, Sr. Software Design Consultant
Cedara Software Corp.  <URL:http://www.cedara.com>
  (formerly I.S.G. Technologies Inc.)
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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