Keyboard stopped working on default desktop but works on grub and login.

[Steven]

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> Really "any of this"? Sorry, but I can't believe that. If you say you 
> can't understand the first part about the delay, then I can accept it, 
> but if you don't know how to login or how to access the K-menu etc. then 
> I don't know how to help you here.
>   
Mostly I have been using the gui, the icon for kmenu on the desktop.  I 
can open a terminal, but can't remember ever just changing from a 
regular shell to kdesudo or su or sudo.  Whenever I have used sudo it is 
like this:  sudo apt-get install <whatever>.

I think you are telling me to get into root and then use the command 
cd.  The slow key problem is solved.  That worked, however, correcting 
the other problem is not.  When I opened a shell, the prompt was like 
this:  Shabakthanai at Studio25:~$ .  Not knowing how to just change from 
that to 'su', I typed in: cd.  It took me back to the same prompt as 
before.  I then typed in: mv lkde .kde.orig, and it returned to the same 
prompt again.

I am sorry, I can't seem to relax from the pressure enough to remember 
what I thought I had learned.

If I start at Shabakthanai at Studio25:~$ ..... how do I get to 
Shabakthanai at Studio25:~su$, if that is where I am supposed to start from?
> What I suppose is your problem is the slow key feature which which can be 
> easily activated (but I don't know how). If that feature is activated you 
> have to hold every key for about 0.5s until the key is accepted. I'm not 
> sure, but from what you describe that feature is also active when you 
> want to enter the password to unlock the session. I can't test it now 
> because I don't have a spare machine available at this moment and I don't 
> want to kill all applications of my current session. So if the slow keys 
> feature is active while you are at the unlock screen, you may need to 
> press the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut to kill the Xserver for at least 
> 0.5s. When the Xserver is killed it will restart with the login screen. 
> The login screen doesn't know about the slow keys and you can type your 
> password as usual. You should login as the default user which has the 
> keyboard problem. Then proceed with the settings like I described in the 
> previous mail to get rid of the slow keys feature.
>
>
> Nils
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