Keyboard Problems on Toshiba Laptops

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Problem

The keyboard of your Toshiba Notebook bounces. Sometimes several characters are issued when a key is pressed (briefly).

Cause

The Toshiba keyboard produces an unusual sequence of keyboard events. Actually, Toshiba is responsible for fixing this bug. However, the only measure that was taken so far was the integration of a workaround in the Windows keyboard driver.

Solution

The X server can be configured in such a way that keyboard events repeated within a short period are ignored. To adjust the X server in this way, download the xbounce package. This package can be downloaded from the following FTP server:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/Toshiba/

Following the successful download of the package, install it with the command rpm -ivh xbounce-1.2-0.i586.rpm. Subsequently, the program will be located in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin/ and must now be included in the file .xinitrc as follows (excerpt from a .xinitrc file):

--8<--
#
# Add your own lines here...
#

xbounce
-->8--


Modify the .xinitrc files of the user root (/root/.xinitrc) and of all users who use the graphical user interface. To avoid needing to modify the file when creating a user, you can also modify the file /etc/skel/.xinitrc.

Special thanks to Sven "Darkman" Michels.


Keywords: KEYBOARD, TOSHIBA, LAPTOP, KEYBOARD PROBLEMS, BOUNCE

Categories: X Server

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