I haven't had any replies to this but after reporting the problem to Sun UK some days ago, asking the questions below on Sunmanagers only recently and tearing my hair out, I have managed to fix the problem. Below, is an expurgated version of my email to Sun: You will probably be pleased to know that I've fixed this problem. In /etc/dt/config I found I file dated Mar 25 16:19 named Xservers. In that file there is the line :0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner +kb I checked on other Solaris 9 systems and found that I didn't have this file and infact the /usr/dt/config/Xservers file has the line: :0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner which I assume is the default? I don't really know too much about X. However, I decided to rename /etc/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers.old and reboot. Hey presto, keyboard is now o.k. I cannot be sure whether the Gnome installation created this or whether I did by clicking a button, but it was around the time I installed Gnome 2. Ray Ray Hillman wrote: Hi, Perhaps somewhat foolishly, I installed Sun's version of Gnome 2 on my Blade 100 workstation last week. I decided that I would take a look at this later and switched back to CDE, but now find that I have keyboard problems - notably I cannot type the tilde or hash character and that keys which repeated no longer do so. I'm using a type 6 USB keyboard (UK). Can anyone advise me how to get the default behaviour back? I don't feel that I should start fiddling around modifying key mappings. I've just go this idea that the Gnome installation has tweaked one or more files at the system level, which are common to other desktops. I can still type the characters at the command line prompt, but not in any desktop application. Thanks Ray -- RFC-822 : R.K.Hillman@bton.ac.uk Tel : +44 1273 600900 Ext. 2644 or +44 1273 642644 (direct) Fax : +44 1273 642666 Http : <http://www.brighton.ac.uk/> <http://www.freeridemusic.co.uk/>Systems Manager, University of Brighton Information Services, Watts Building, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, East Sussex, UK, BN2 4GJ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Apr 3 09:57:16 2003
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