[ltp] Gnome Down Key Problem

Alex Gonopolskiy linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:20:53 -0500


Thank you! You were right, after all this time I kept trying out
different key maps and it was just an accidental shortcut I added.  I
feel dumb :(

On Nov 14, 2007 6:07 AM, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:09:40PM -0500, Alex Gonopolskiy wrote:
> > I have been having a very strange issue with my T61 Thinkpad.  I've
> > had this problem on both Debian and Ubuntu, I am currently running
> > Ubuntu.  The problem is as follows:
> >
> > The down arrow button does not seem to work in Gnome, when I first
> > installed Debian, it used to work fine, but starting from about a
> > month or two ago it stopped scrolling down.  However it does work with
> > other desktop environments such as Xfce.  I tried playing around with
> > different keyboard layouts but it doesn't seem to fix anything.  Has
> > Gnome recently changed keyboard shortcuts that could somehow affect
> > this?  Has anyone had any similar problems before?
>
> I had a problem somwhat like this one.  It turned out that I had
> accidentally mapped Backspace to some action in System ->
> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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