No Krunner for USB keyboard

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Dec 27 16:10:46 UTC 2009


> On a terminal, do the following:
> ps aux | grep -i <exe_name>
> Substitute the name of the VNC server executable. If this shows
> anything apart from the grep command, the server is running. ("aux"
> is just my favourite set of ps options that will display the name -
> any set that displays the name is fine.) Alternatively, you can
> locate the start script in /etc/init.d and see if it supports the
> status parameter.
>

Grepping for "vnc" returns only the grep command itself.


> The idea is to use the internal to switch to a vterm and the USB to
> switch back to X to see whether the problem is restricted to X. Just
> typing in the vterm isn't going to work as that works even under X,
> as far as I understood you.
>

Yes, I understood that. The USB keyboard will not switch me back to terminal 7.


> Were there any kernel/X server updates that came in after you
> rebooted the last time the problem didn't occur? Are there any very
> recent backups of /etc/X11/xorg.conf in /etc/X11? Does
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf suddenly contain some weird entry that only
> affects the USB keyboard?
>

This install doesn't even have an xorg.conf file!


> Oh, and: have you tried searching launchpad for bugreports related to
> the VNC server?
>

I see nothing relevant.


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