Hi Guys
Yesterday I installed Lubuntu 14.04 on to a spare hard drive to have a look at a 14.04 release and I have a strange problem which is I cant input text from the keyboard inside Chromium
Keyboard input is no problem in Firefox or any other application such as Leafpad it only happens with Chromium
Any help or advice would be much appreciated
Many thanks
Graeme
Bizarre! I don’t know if Chromium does anything strange with keyboard input (i.e. not via the X server or something odd)
Does it behave the same if you boot a live CD?
does it not work anywhere in chromium ?
how about if you open a second tab … does it work in the second tab ?
does it not work anywhere in chromium ?
I never tried another tab but I’ll give that a try tonight
As it stands if I wanted to post here or any forum it wont let me, I posted a message on another forum this morning and I had to type it in Leafpad and paste in in the message box, it will let me type a couple of letters but that’s all, I can copy & paste and click on links but it will accept nothing from the keyboard
it’s not just forums I use W3 Launcher and I tried to add a site and it wouldn’t accept any keyboard input, Firefox seems ok
Graeme
Does it behave the same if you boot a live CD?
I haven’t tried that I only have a live USB but the thing is Lubuntu comes with Firefox installed as default so I had no idea this was a problem before I installed.
I suppose I could fire up the live usb again install Chromium and try it if you think it will help
Graeme
I’ll try chromium myself as this needs to be looked at … if only for Peppermint 5
If you’ve got time, it would help to eliminate any specific problems with your install.
If the LiveUSB behaves correctly, try purging (complete removal) and reinstalling Chromium in your main Lubuntu install (this will probably wipe out bookmarks, so export them to desktop first)
Ok
I installed Chromium in the live usb and it’s doing exactly the same thing, I get keyboard input for only a few letters then all input stops, once again Firefox is ok
Many thanks
Graeme
Is this a laptop or a desktop? How is your keyboard connected (USB, PS/2, other)?
Is this a laptop or a desktop? How is your keyboard connected (USB, PS/2, other)?
It’s a Compaq desktop PC and the keyboard is PS2 (I’ve never seen the point in using up a USB port for a keyboard or mouse when there’s a PS2 socket available) ???
Many thanks
Graeme
Ok, so do you get anything from:
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
graeme@Linux1x:~$ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 51.406] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
graeme@Linux1x:~$
No obvious problems there then - not that I thought there would be, just ruling out the normal type stuff
There seems to be a report on Chromium’s bug tracker (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=248166), although it’s quite old…
Searching reveals a lot of Windows 7 machines having these issues with Chrome, so that suggests to me that this need/will be fixed upstream
Have you installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras and lubuntu-restricted-extras packages yet ?
They pull in chromium-browser-l10n (language packs) and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (extra codecs) along with other stuff … I’m wondering if the chromium language packs will make a difference.
Be sure to close/restart ALL web browser instances after installing.
Have you installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras and lubuntu-restricted-extras packages yet ?
Yes I have them both installed I even uninstalled the reinstalled still no luck, I also tried a usb keyboard and that doesn’t work either
Be sure to close/restart ALL web browser instances after installing.
I did that after each change and even tried rebooting still no luck
Many thanks
Graeme
Did not use Chromium for a while, so do not know if this is possible, but try to change either the theme or font colurs and see if that makes a difference. It might be that it is accepting the keystrokes but not visible due to colour choices.
Hi SeZO
Thanks for your input
I tried a couple of themes and fonts but still no luck I’m afraid
Many thanks
Graeme
Does Chrome behave the same ?
Click on the IBUS indicator applet on the right upper corner and disable IBUS. Chromium should now accept inputs agein.
Don’t ask me why - just stumbled over it.
Seems like 14.10 still has some issues (I have trouble with WIFI at the moment 
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Thanks for that epanzenb … if that works for Emegra, I’ll be sure to bring it up in Peppermint development
Maybe you’d like to start a new topic about your wireless issues ? … maybe someone here can return the favour 