hosed keymappings

Subject: hosed keymappings

From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:22:57 -0800

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I am doing something (not sure yet what) that is hosing my keymappings. After whatever it is, my keyboard loses its shift, meta keys, etc. I cannot type capital letters, ampersands, control characters, etc. In particular, for example, shift-7 just prints a "7" instead of an "&".

So I looked at xmodmap, with -pke, and it says that keycode 64 = Shift_L, which seems reasonable. xev seems to confirm that it knows a shift key is being pressed:

KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,

root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 421682279, (14,-9), root:(1328,637),

state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,

XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:

XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,

root 0x57, subw 0x0, time 421682865, (14,-9), root:(1328,637),

state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,

XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

So what is wrong here?

How do I restore my settings? If I quit X11 and restart, that works, but obviously that is not acceptable. I had a vague plan to somehow maybe use xmodmap to save my current keymappings, then reload them when they go awry, but I don't really see anything wrong to restore. Is that possible? How would I do that?

Thanks.

Richard Cook

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