Shift key

[ssrs10]

My shift key does not work. Stopped working last night. If you're wondering how I got the caps in here I have to hit the capslock button every time. However, I cannot use anything that pertains to the shift key, it started last night. every time i hit the shift key the cursor disappears and no characters appear when i hit the keyboard.....any help would be greatly appreciated......

[dijetlo]

Which distro do you use, are you using standard kbd or have you accidently remapped some of them with an alternate keyboard configuration? What desktop system are you using? Fluxbox, for example, allows you to map keys in the "key" file at the base of your .fluxbox directory. Have you tried "xev" and tested what the machine sees when you tap shift_l or shift_r?

[ssrs10]

i tried the xev and this is what i got.....not sure what it means......i'm new to linux, i have ubuntu........

FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 4294967205 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 0 0 0 0 0 0

[dijetlo]

FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
FocusIn event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

That's you moving your mouse

KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 4294967205 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 0 0 0 0 0 0

That's you mashing the shift key.

KeymapNotify event,

See I get "key press" and "key release" events, KeyMapNotify, that suggests xmodmap is involved (the shift key has been remapped).Take a look at the man page for xmodmap. In slackware I could

xmodmap -clear shift

and reset the modifiers on shift but I'm not sure about what distro you are running so I can't confirm that's how you would do it.

[ssrs10]

here's what i get when i type xmodmap

-laptop:~$ xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)


and again with the xev

FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 4294967206 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 0 0 0 0 0 0

the zeros don't come from my mouse as far as i can tell......

when i move my mouse i get this

ConfigureNotify event, serial 34, synthetic YES, window 0x4400001,
event 0x4400001, window 0x4400001, (233,49), width 178, height 178,
border_width 2, above 0x1242c93, override NO

ClientMessage event, serial 34, synthetic YES, window 0x4400001,
message_type 0x10f (WM_PROTOCOLS), format 32, message 0x10d (WM_DELETE_WINDOW)

[ssrs10]

~$ xmodmap -clear shift
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym name 'shift' in keysym list
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad remove modifier keysym list (empty)
xmodmap: 2 errors encountered, aborting.

[dijetlo]

.Take a look at the man page for xmodmap.

The 's' in Shift is capitolized.

[ssrs10]

~$ xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x69)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x6c), Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0xce), Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c), Mode_switch (0xcb)

[ssrs10]

~$ xmodmap -clear Shift
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym name 'Shift' in keysym list
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad remove modifier keysym list (empty)
xmodmap: 2 errors encountered, aborting.

[ssrs10]

i am truely very confused here