Description of problem: From a remote X Terminal ( HP ENTRIA Enware v7.11 ), all gnome applications reacting bad to keyboard input. ie: in TextEdit for example: if you type 's', then it writes a 's' in the text, bug if you type 'h' it directly open the Help menu, and it's not possible to enter the 'h' letter in the text. This problem occure in all gnome app ( gdm, gedit, gnome-terminal,...) From X-Win32, this problem does not occur. Under the same HP terminal, under KDE, all is working fine. To discover this, firstly I was thinking that was a gdm bug, because, It was impossible to log in with gdm. When I try to log in under the root user, when I type the 'o' letter, it validates my entry and ask the password. I switch to kdm to login the system Of course, I try multiple keyboard on this terminal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Latest realease from RedHat 8.0 update How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connecting from a HP Entria Terminal with XDCMP 2. On the login console, try to type 'root' 3. When you type the 'o' it acts like if you typed the enter key
does it work if you open the gnome apps while in kde? can you paste the KeyPress events from "xev" caused by typing the letters that don't work? also the output of "xmodmap -pm"? thanks
Under kde and when running a gnome app, the same problem occurs. Here is the result of "modmap -pm": xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x1b), Shift_R (0x62) lock Caps_Lock (0x1d) control Control_L (0x1a), Control_R (0x61) mod1 Alt_L (0x22), Alt_R (0x42), Mode_switch (0x84) mod2 mod3 mod4 mod5 Here is the dump of xev on a gedit window when I type a 'h' in gedit VisibilityNotify event, serial 9, synthetic NO, window 0x4000002, state VisibilityPartiallyObscured when I type a worked letter, nothing append in xev. Without specifying a window id in xev, I see events when I type characters in xev own window For exemple: the 'h' letter: KeyPress event, serial 19, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001, root 0x24, subw 0x4000002, time 858957305, (36,47), root:(48,107), state 0x0, keycode 42 (keysym 0x68, h), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters: "h" KeyRelease event, serial 21, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001, root 0x24, subw 0x4000002, time 858957375, (36,47), root:(48,107), state 0x0, keycode 42 (keysym 0x68, h), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters: "h" But this event does not occur in a gnome application. The report of xev under console or my HP X Terminal are the same.
I think the problem is having Alt and Mode_switch on the same modifier bit. You need to fix the X terminal not to do that, it doesn't make any sense.
Can you try changing the keymap for your X terminal so that the xmodmap doesn't have two functions on the same modifier bit, and let us know if that fixes it?