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hseu

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 26

Xmonad/Slim causing keyboard input failure on agetty?

I have just installed xmonad along with slim, and I notice that when xmonad is running
and i Alt+FX out to a tty console, a lot of my keyboard inputs are missed. E.g. I will try
to type "pacman -Syu" and all i get is "pamn Su". It is not key-specific as I can
(with repeated attempts) get the letters which were missed in that example.

I'm pretty sure the problem isn't slim because before I've logged in, if i switch out to a
tty i don't have the problem.

I did notice that xmonad hasn't changed slim's background, but I think that's more
down to the fact that I haven't told xmonad to do otherwise, rather than a possible
cause of the problem.
xmonad's functionality is fine, no keyboard problems there. Only when I try on agetty.

Anyone seen this before?

thanks

EDIT: I suppose it has to be slim... I tried booting with runlevel 3 instead and doing
startx manually takes away the problem. I'm not impressed enough with graphical
login managers to pursue this any longer, i'll just start X from .bash_profile
Still curious as to whether anyone has ever seen this before though

Last edited by hseu (2011-04-14 16:40:41)

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Drexya

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Registered: 2009-07-28

Posts: 23

Re: Xmonad/Slim causing keyboard input failure on agetty?

I had the same issue with slim and never found a workaround .

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hseu

Member

From: London, UK

Registered: 2009-03-15

Posts: 26

Re: Xmonad/Slim causing keyboard input failure on agetty?

Thanks for your reply, good to know it's not just me
It is a shame though, it was nice(looking) while it lasted (about an hour).

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