Bug 280422

Summary:	Keyboard not functional in KDM when connecting to remote computer with ALT-R (or switch to local login with ALT-L)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	T Bubeck <t.bubeck>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugz57, wbauer1
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description T Bubeck 2011-08-19 13:25:04 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

If you run KDM and switch with "Menu" to the "Remote login" (or pressing ALT-R)
then you should be able to enter a computer name into the text field. But the
keyboard is not working at all. This is not a focus problem. If you switch back
to "Local Login" (or pressing ALT-L) then you are not able to enter a password
or username. Keyboard is now "broken".

The same is true if you boot KDM with LoginMode=DefaultRemote in
/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and switch to "local login" with ALt-L in KDM. No keyboard
is working to enter username or password. Clicking into the username or
password field will not allow keyboard either. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora
2. Enter DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE into /etc/sysconfig/desktop
   to use KDM instead of GDM
3. reboot
4. Press ALT-R in KDM for remote login
   Press ALT-L in KDM for local login
5. No way to enter username or password into fields.

Actual Results:  
No way to enter username or password

Expected Results:  
Ability to enter it.

Bug is also reported to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731936

Comment 1 Volker Kuhlmann 2014-08-04 07:02:42 UTC

Confirmed for openSUSE 12.3, kdm-4.10.5-1.119.1.x86_64
There are other keyboard input problems too.

Comment 2 Wolfgang Bauer 2014-12-16 12:58:06 UTC

There's a general issue with input focus in kdm's dialogs. See the other bug report for a workaround.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 338018 ***