Hi,

I'm currently working on a system with Ubuntu 7.10.

I'm doing web development using Quanta+ as my editor, and I'm running 
Windows 2000 in VMWare Player, so I can check that things work in IE.

These two seem to have some interaction issues:

Under some circumstances - I haven't figured out, all the modifier keys 
(Ctrl, Shift, Alt etc..) stop working.


1) Does anyone know what is causing this to happen ?
2) Can someone tell me how to restore the modifier keys to their defaults 
without having to restart the X server.

Thanks
JohnT

"John Taylor"  wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a system with Ubuntu 7.10.
>
> I'm doing web development using Quanta+ as my editor, and I'm running
> Windows 2000 in VMWare Player, so I can check that things work in IE.
>
> These two seem to have some interaction issues:
>
> Under some circumstances - I haven't figured out, all the modifier keys
> (Ctrl, Shift, Alt etc..) stop working.
>
>
> 1) Does anyone know what is causing this to happen ?
Just a guess - it could be your desktop grabbing the key events.#

> 2) Can someone tell me how to restore the modifier keys to their defaults
> without having to restart the X server.
>

man xmodmap
man xev

-- 
Geoff

In article <cTElk.202424$oo.26614@newsfe09.ams2>,
	John Taylor wrote:

> I'm doing web development using Quanta+ as my editor, and I'm running 
> Windows 2000 in VMWare Player, so I can check that things work in IE.

VMWare is the problem.

> 2) Can someone tell me how to restore the modifier keys to their defaults 
> without having to restart the X server.

setxkbmap -layout gb -model pc102

Change the model to the one you have in your xorg.conf, using the
values found in these lines:

        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc102"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "gb"

-- 
Paul Martin

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:17:24 +0100, Paul Martin wrote:

> 
>> 2) Can someone tell me how to restore the modifier keys to their
>> defaults without having to restart the X server.
> 
> setxkbmap -layout gb -model pc102
> 
> Change the model to the one you have in your xorg.conf, using the values
> found in these lines:
> 
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc102" Option         
>         "XkbLayout"     "gb"

Thanks.
I'll try that out the next time it happens.

JohnT