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kikinovak

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From: Montpezat (South France)

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 93

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Very strange bug: random keyboard disposition

Hi,

I just experimented a very strange bug. I have Arch installed with the XFCE desktop and Firefox3b05 from unstable. I was reading my favourite austrian newspaper online: http://derstandard.at. There's the possibility to post messages under the articles, so I clicked on "Post", and suddenly, within the posting window... my keyboard disposition went crazy. Instead of "a", I had a greek omega, instead of "s", I had a euro symbol, and so on. And more: all the other apps were suddenly affected too. I opened mousepad, same story.

I restarted X, went to the same site... and had the same experience. But after the third time, things seem to have returned to normality.

Anybody ever experienced something similar? What could this be related to? X going crazy?

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benmorgan

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 67

Re: Very strange bug: random keyboard disposition

Hmm, strange stuff! To affect the whole system. That is odd.
I got the same set up as you: Xfce4, FF3b5, went to the website;
no problem!

kikinovak

Member

From: Montpezat (South France)

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 93

Website

Re: Very strange bug: random keyboard disposition

Well, viewing the site is not the problem. You'd have to get an account and actually try posting a message on their message board. That's where the havoc begins.

JavaScript from hell, maybe...

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