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Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 16:47:28 UTC 2008


Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said: 
> Unfortunately evdev has a huge configuration design flaw every new
> user hits - if anything sets the keyboard model to something else than
> evdev ("evdev-managed generic keyboard" in Gnome keyboard properties)
> some keys will misbehave, and in particular arrow up will become
> printscreen.

However, if you *have no configured state*, GNOME can adjust to evdev;
ergo, it should be able to adjust to it even if you do have some
state. (Also, evdev shouldn't be as wildly different that it
breaks so badly.)

Bill




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