Ubuntu :: Disabling A Keyboard ?
Aug 27, 2010Does anyone know how to disable a keyboard on Ubuntu?
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Ubuntu :: Key Gets Stuck When Disabling Keyboard?
Feb 21, 2011I'm running into some weird behavior while using xinput to disable the keyboard that might be an underlying bug, and I'm wondering if anyone could reproduce it or provide any insight into what's causing it. I'm running Ubuntu desktop 10.10 64-bit in a VMware Workstation VM running on a Windows 7 64-bit host.First I use "xinput list" to find out which keyboards are present in the system. In my case there's only one with id=9. Next I execute "xinput set-prop 9 "Device Enabled" 0" to disable the keyboard at id=9. Now, if I type this into the terminal and hit enter, the keyboard gets disabled but at the same time the enter key becomes stuck. The system thinks the enter key is being held down.
However, if I make a script with the same command and execute it by clicking it in Nautilus, the keyboard gets disabled and no keys are stuck. It seems if the keyboard is disabled with a press of the keyboard, then whatever key was pressed to trigger the disabling of the keyboard becomes stuck.
You might ask why I would want to disable the keyboard in the first place. It's because I'm running Ubuntu in VMware Unity mode, where the system in the VM is integrated with the host desktop system, the VM's windows appear as individual windows on the host desktop,etc. In this mode, whenever I close a VM window by hitting a key on the keyboard (for example, hitting Ctrl+D while in gnome-terminal) and focus goes back to a host window, then that key becomes stuck the next time I open a VM window. If I close a VM window by clicking the mouse then there's no problem. I'm pretty sure now that this is caused by the above mentioned bug from disabling the keyboard. I think in Unity mode VMware workstation runs a script to disable the keyboard in the guest whenever VM windows lose focus, so key presses don't continue to be piped to the guest OS. However, if this action is triggered by a press of the keyboard, then that key becomes stuck in the guest OS.
General :: Disabling Keyboard For Some Time?
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Apr 11, 2010Some Flash games don't work very well on Linux because when you hold down a key (such as one of the cursor keys) the Flash player sends the game multiple KeyDown and KeyUp events, leaving the game unable to tell the difference between a user holding a key or a user tapping a key quickly. (On other platforms it seems that typematic repeat generates multiple KeyDown events but not KeyUp events.)
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gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/repeat --type bool false
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My problem is that when I have tried entering these on the command-line (in a gnome-terminal), X-windows seems to get confused and behaves as though I'm holding down the enter key. It doesn't stop if I press enter again. I tried pressing ctrl-alt-f1 to switch to a text console and it worked fine, but when I pressed ctrl-alt-f7 to go back to X it still behaved as though I was holding down enter. I had to press ctrl-alt-backspace to reset X before it would return to normal. I *think* it happens in particular when changing the setting from true to false. I'm running Karmic Koala with all the updates.
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Code:
partial alphanumeric_keys
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[code]....
Ubuntu :: No Keyboard At Grub First Boot - Keyboard After Restart?
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When I get to the log-in screen if I hit restart and go back to the grub screen I have a keyboard and can select any kernel. If I login to the kernel I have full keyboard, no problem. If I then restart, I have keyboard at the grub list.
Nutshell: It is only when starting the computer fresh that the keyboard is dead at grub menu (and then only). Any time after that, once the computer has been switched on, if I restart I have keyboard at grub menu and can select different kernels. (Of course, if I switch the computer off and back on again, no keyboard ...)
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Ubuntu :: Enabling/disabling Touchpad With Fn+F9?
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First, some preliminaries:
My touchpad works just fine, but it does not respond to my laptop's special key, Fn+F9.
In /etc/acpi/events I have the following script, "asus-touchpad":
Code:
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# /etc/acpi/asus-touchpad.sh for further processing.
[Code].....
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Code:
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Code:
while [ 1 ] do
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Ubuntu Security :: Crontab Disabling Internet From 7pm To 7am?
Apr 11, 2010I administer a desktop computer with ubuntu 8.04 in an university library. Since it works almost all night, to enable students to study, after some time I noticed some misuses of the computer during the evening, when there isn't many students. My goal was to disable users from accessing internet from 7pm to 7am, but also enable it if certain user was logged in (I use that user for torrent, and I seed on that computers from time to time). So I created a script that's being called by root's crontab, and here is the script's code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
NUM=`who|grep myuser|wc -l`
#echo $NUM
if [ $NUM -le 0 ]; then
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
else
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
fi
Since I created the script, I actually never seeded anything, so I'm wondering now if that's going to work at all, and (also) is there a better solution for this.