Keyboard issues: enter, tab etc. disabled (Java-related?)

[kellner]

Hi,

with Oxygen 8.1 on a SuSE Linux box (10.2), I am experiencing curious keyboard problems.
Enter, tab, backspace and delete keys don't work, and modifier keys (ctrl, alt) don't work either, though alt-gr works.

This is since the upgrade of SuSE to 10.2, so I first suspected that it was due to the peculiar Java version that comes with this distribution.

I did a Java upgrade, and java-version now shows this output:

java version "1.5.0_10"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_10-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_10-b03, mixed mode)

The upgrade didn't change anything in Oxygen. I also have the XML editor Morphon installed, and it has exactly the same problems as Oxygen. Finally, I also use jedit, where, curiously, all abovementioned keys work, but the space key doesn't. This makes me think that the problem is somehow related to Java in connection with XML in particular.

This is starting to drive me crazy, and I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to fix things. It would help to know for instance whether someone runs the same Java build but doesn't have these problems.

Thanks in advance,

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

Do you have the same problems with other version of Java virtual machine? You can try with the JVM version 1.6.0 or JVM 1.4.2 from Sun Microsystems. To set the JVM for running oXygen edit the [oXygen-install-dir]/oxygen.sh script and specify the full path to the java executable in the java command at the end of the script. Start oXygen with a command

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sh oxygen.sh

in a command line console.


Regards,
Sorin