Strange Keyboard problems..WIN key doesnt work

[aniketv]

I use KDE as my desktop.
I have assigned a few global shortcuts in AmaroK which use the WIN key.
When I boot my PC , sometimes these shortcuts do not work as the WIN key is somehow not recognised. Then I play around with the "keyboard layout" section in Kcontrol and it starts working ... The strange thing is that I selected "Generic 102 key "(that was selected by default) model for my keyboard . Then when it doesnt work , I just change to something else ( anything !!) hit "apply" ..then again select "Generic 102 key" , the WIN key starts to work . I amat my wits end trying to find out the problem. Please help..

This problem did not exist in fedora core 4 previously, I am facing it only in FC5.

[aniketv]

Please help people ...I know its a weird problem..but please...to all the Linux Gurus

[InKo]

actually I have no idea why that happend but I would firstly see in
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf and /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ...

[aniketv]

in hwconf it this..

class: KEYBOARD
bus: PSAUX
detached: 0
desc: "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"

And in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="us"

I have a generic multimedia keyboard by a brand called Tech-Com ..its a local brand.

Can you tell me what to change?
But a what I dont understand is , just by playing around with the keyboard layout options in KControl, it gets fixed. I think the problem may lie with KDE too..any ideas.

[InKo]

in hwconf it this..
class: KEYBOARD
bus: PSAUX
detached: 0
desc: "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"


add:
driver: ignore

[aniketv]

Thanks ..I will post back my results

EDIT: That did not help . The problem still persists.
Any other solutions..??

[clue]

I'm having also the same problem. This is definitley a FC5 bug. Hope this will be fixed soon.

[InKo]

yep, it seems to be that... :(

[grepsy]

If you run the command

xev

and get the key code you can then put the following line in your .Xclients-default
xmodmap -e "keycode ### = XF86****"

where ### is the keycode number from xev and **** is from one of these in the list. You don't have to match it up directly as long as you press that key after restarting X to set it in amarok or KDE

The list of XF86 codes can be found here

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/XF86_keyboard_symbols

[icydog]

I have had this problem on both my FC5 machines too. This problem is very stupid and should not exist. Here's what I did to fix it:

1. Open KDE Control Center
2. Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout
3. Go to the Xkb Options tab and scroll down
4. Under "Alt/Win key behavior" select "Super is mapped to the Win-keys (default)."

Why you have to explicitly pick a default option is beyond me. I always thought default meant default. Oh well. I hope I helped.

[Caesar Tjalbo]

I have had this problem on both my FC5 machines too. This problem is very stupid and should not exist. Here's what I did to fix it:

1. Open KDE Control Center
2. Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout
3. Go to the Xkb Options tab and scroll down
4. Under "Alt/Win key behavior" select "Super is mapped to the Win-keys (default)."

Why you have to explicitly pick a default option is beyond me. I always thought default meant default. Oh well. I hope I helped.
Worked for me. Thx!

[Bachmann]

is there anything that can be done if you do not use kde? (XFCE user here)