I have enabled autologon feature in my KDE 4.2 (I use kdm4).

So, when the KDE is logged on automatically, my keys (on keyboard) become stickless. I mean than when I press and hold one key, only one symbol is produced. After this, I relogin manually (through logout). In my second KDE session, keyboard works well and produce numerous symbols while holding a key on keyboard.

That is why I have to relogin every mourning. It's very annoying.

You can also toggle the setting in System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard which will also correct it.

bcooksley wrote:... in System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard ...

I do not have such a menu - Keyboard. In Keyboard & Mouse I have only one menu for mouse, one for joystick and two for keyboard shortcuts.

I remember, that I saw such a settings earlier, in KDE3. But I cannot find it now in KDE4

Does this command open the Keyboard control module?

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kcmshell4 keyboard

If that doesn't work, try rebuilding the Sycoca, then try again:

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

If it still doesn't work, please ensure that the following package is installed, and updated:

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kdebase4-workspace

bcooksley wrote:Does this command open the Keyboard control module?

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kcmshell4 keyboard

No, it does not execute something

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> kcmshell4 --list | grep key
keys                  - Настройка комбинаций клавиш
keyboard_layout       - Раскладка клавиатуры


Sorry for cyrillic letters - I have russian localization.

bcooksley wrote:If it still doesn't work, please ensure that the following package is installed, and updated:kdebase4-workspace

I have installed it and keep the latest version with everyday-update from KDE4:/Factory

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> rpm -qa | grep kdebase4
kdebase4-openSUSE-11.1.1-69.3
kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-11.1-66.4
kdebase4-libkonq-4.2.2-79.8
kdebase4-openSUSE-lang-11.1.1-69.3
kdebase4-workspace-devel-4.2.2-217.2
kdebase4-session-4.1.3-2.1
kdebase4-runtime-4.2.2-94.2
kdebase4-workspace-4.2.2-217.2
kdebase4-nsplugin-4.2.2-79.8
kdebase4-workspace-ksysguardd-4.2.2-217.2
kdebase4-4.2.2-79.8

What is the output of this command please?

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find /usr/lib/kde4 | grep keyboard

bcooksley wrote:What is the output of this command please?

The outpyt is very interesting

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> find /usr/lib/kde4 | grep keyboard
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_keyboard.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_keyboard_layout.so
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Nevertheless, there is no module named keyboard in the output of

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kcmshell4 --list

Very interesting. Now what is the output of this command:

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find /usr/share/kde4/ | grep keyboard

If my suspicions are correct you will recieve a /usr/share/kde4/services/keyboard.desktop entry.

In that case, please run this command:

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

bcooksley wrote:Very interesting. Now what is the output of this command:
find /usr/share/kde4/ | grep keyboard

If my suspicions are correct you will recieve a /usr/share/kde4/services/keyboard.desktop entry.

Yes, your suspicions are correct

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> find /usr/share/kde4/ | grep keyboard
/usr/share/kde4/services/keyboard.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/settings-keyboard-and-mouse.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/keyboard_layout.desktop
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bcooksley wrote:In that case, please run this command:
kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

I tried it. It takes no effect, but there is a lot of output with errors like this:

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...
kbuildsycoca4(5282)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/groups/misc.desktop"
kbuildsycoca4(5282)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file  "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/groups/network_devices.desktop"  has Type= "Application"  but no Exec line
...


Nothing about keyboard in the output

The control module should have appeared after running that command. Note that you will likely need to restart System Settings for it to be seen.

bcooksley wrote:The control module should have appeared after running that command. Note that you will likely need to restart System Settings for it to be seen.

The keyboard works good after todays update of KDE. But I steel lack the keyboard module in kcmshell4 (also after full PC reboot).

Do you have Gnome installed along side KDE? if so then it's a bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169710

The workaround is to rename /usr/share/application/keyboard.desktop to anything-keyboard.desktop then log out > log in.

Thanks, I made the keyboard module to appear. But the keyboard became stikless on my todays startup again.

In kcmshell4 keyboard I just unset and set "Enable keyboard repeat" and pressed "Apply" to enable keyboard repeat. Note, that the checkbox was set (checked).

Now I do not need to relogin . But the unconvenience remains.

Unfortunately I do not know how Keyboard Key repeating works, but there is probably some Xorg command which can be run which will correct it, and which can be run on login.

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xset r

My keyboard repeat also gets unset from time to time (while I use the computer). I don't know if it's KDE's fault, but there's a bug for it here.

It's very annoying to have to go to KControl to enable it all the time, so I've set a keyboard shortcut to runs command above. Ah yes. This is in KDE 3.5.x.