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tightvnc messes up keyboard layout after Ubuntu upgrade
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9 Feb 2010I upgraded my home server from Ubuntu Hardy Heron to Karmic Koala last weekend and some things went wrong. Oddly one of the harddisks in my raid got faulty – so I am trying to rebuild my raid.
The second thing was that the keyboard layout was totally messed up when connecting to my tightvnc server. Luckily I found this forum post with the solution. I just had to run the following command:
gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts --type List --list-type String [aa]
I have to admit that I do not fully understand what that command really does, but it fixed my problem.
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3 Responses to tightvnc messes up keyboard layout after Ubuntu upgrade
globestern
May 14th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
also fixed my problems! thank you for that blogpost!
Mike O'Neill
May 20th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Fixed my problem too. No idea what caused it.
I’ve got a fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop and compiled tightvnc 1.3.10 manually since 1.3.9 would crash frequently (known bug).
Thanks!!
sim4000
July 27th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Yay, it works.
Thank you!