feisty: cannot unlock KDE session - need to change Z for Y in passwd

[jerry]

Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen schrieb:
>   
>> Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> after upgrading from ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 beta my wife can not unlock her KDE
>>> session anymore. Login in to KDE is just fine, but unlocking a KDE sessnion is
>>> not working. Her passwd contains a "z". If she types a "y" instead, the
>>> unlocking works!
>>>
>>> And it is not just unlocking the session. Even changing the password with KDE
>>> tools ("About Me" -> Change Passwd) requires her to type "y" instead of "z".
>>>
>>> It looks like the KDE tools are run with a different keyboard layout. How can I
>>> change that?
>>>       
>> Can you check whether it applies to other KDE programs, like Konqueror?
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> other KDE apps seem not to be effected. I type a "Z" and I get a "Z". But as
> soon as I work with passwords in KDE it is getting weird.
>
> Example:
> I create a new user with KDE tools. I set the password to "zzz". When I login to
> that user via ssh, the password is "zzz". But when I login to KDE (kdm), the
> pasword is "yyy".
>
> Matthias
>
>
>   

Have you looked at xmodmap? the command in a terminal

 xmodmap -pke

will list every keycode for every letter. Man xmodmap explains how to 
change the keycodes (xmodmap -e "keycode ?? = ?? ".  I put a line like 
that in my .bashrc file to prevent accidental use of the cap lock.

Hope this helps

Jerry