On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 13:53 +0200, Nephilim wrote: > Hello Craig, > > you can solve your keyboard problem by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the client system i. e. Ubuntu 8.10 or Ubuntu 9.04. > > Add the following block to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > ==== cut (start) ==== > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" > EndSection > ==== cut (end) ==== > > If your're using an other keyboard layout than US, you may have to adjust the keyboard "InputDevice" in xorg.conf, too. Add (or uncomment) a block like this: > > ==== cut (start) ==== > # uncomment the following lines to use a > # german pc keyboard layout > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch" > EndSection > ==== cut (end) ==== > > After editing xorg.conf you have to restart your X-Server. On Ubuntu simply logout out and in. > > That's it. > bye > Nephilim ---- good catch...indeed that does work! I think I ended up doing some more than you suggested, I added... Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" Option "DontZap" "false" EndSection to my xorg.conf which research tells me turns off hal's automatically adding devices which had me specifically defining both my keyboard and mouse setups in xorg.conf (perhaps not necessary but I am gathering that it was necessary). The 'Option "DontZap" "false"' was added in anticipation of Fedora 11's xorg.conf which will enable that feature automatically and will prevent you from being able to kill X from the keyboard, I gather to solve some incompatibility with emacs and perhaps some other software. Thanks Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines