(keyboard) Lost C

really weird problem. The keyboard works fine under Win, and all other keys seem fine under Linux. But the 3rd letter of the alphabet is a problem (in Kate, URL field of browser, wherever).

If I just press the key I get nothing
If I hold shift and press I get C
If I hit Caps lock and then shift and press I get c

It is a plain old generic keyboard, used to work fine under SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 when originally installed. Hard to tell what/when it stopped - not the most commonly required letter!

SaX2 config has 105-key generic, UK layout and looks fine. In OpenOffice selecting different fonts doesn't cure anything (so not a font problem). Did a searh here for "lost c" and found nothing usefull.

Any offers??? TIA

I cannot, I'm afraid, answer your question. However, I give you extra points for having the funniest thread subtitle. And in other news, on my laptop I can only get quotations, eg "", by hitting the quoation key followed by the space bar. I have learned to live with that but I ouldn't learn to ontrol the keyboard without the c key, ould I?

first check or you're using a 105 keys keyboard in the configuration (via sax2) or select an exact match of your keyboard.
use xev to find out what pressing the C is real doing

Yup - it is a 105 key board.

xev output seems to be showing some kind of remapping that is beyond my Linux skills:

for little a I get

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
 * *root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 64504411, (76,-2), root:(78,22),
 * *state 0x10, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
 * *XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
 * *XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"
 * *XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
 * *root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 64504512, (76,-2), root:(78,22),
 * *state 0x10, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
 * *XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a"

for little c I get

FocusOut event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
 * *mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
 * *mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
 * *keys: *2 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 64 *0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0
 * * * * * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * 0

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
 * *root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 64612772, (68,-11), root:(70,13),
 * *state 0x10, keycode 54 (keysym 0x63, c), same_screen YES,
 * *XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (63) "c"

Tried swapping another keyboard (while running) and get the same symptoms so shouldnt be hardware (also as per first post I have no Cc problems under Win).

ok, so you're keyboard is working ok, it gives a c
the question is: why don't you see it on your screen .. i have to think about that, no ideas at this moment ..

if you're in the non-graphical environment (so in console, not in X) do you have te same problem ?

Try setting your country in the control center. Possibly the lack of country information or the wrong country is selected giving the problem you are having.

-Grim

Originally posted by inktvis@Sep 2 2004, 14:51
if you're in the non-graphical environment (so in console, not in X) do you have te same problem ?

Yup - I had tried in Konsole.

But Grim76 hit the nail. In Control Centre I had no Country selected so took UK. Also in keyboard layout had nothing so took UK there as well. Still no-go. But browsing the keyboard shortcuts, Shortcut sequences have just seen C mapped to "Switch to desktop 5". Have just set that back to "Default" and voila!

Many thanks to all for suggestions & help. Cant imagine how the hell I set c to be my shortcut for desktop 5 (I only use 1 desktop) but am happy to be able to ccccccccccc again