Error activating XKB configuration
by CluelessLass from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6FRW3)
Hello, everyone,
Does anyone have any ideas, please, why I get a message telling me the above "Error activating XKB configuration" and the box I hope you can see attached to this post after I sign in to Linux please? Getting rid of the box is easy enough - I just close it - but after it's appeared I don't seem able to download things like podcasts. Maybe that's co-incidence, but the downloading-podcasts-problem only happened after the box started appearing. I'm not sure about libre office and editing pictures, but certainly internet windows seems to be less reactive than they used to be, as well. For example, opening a story on a newspaper website seems to take longer than it used to.
I have Mint 21.2 Cinnamon, 64-bit on a pretty old, but reconditioned, Samsung RV510 laptop. I've been using Linux for maybe a year or so, but I class myself as a newbie as I don't really understand Linux and I've never tried to do anything clever - I just switch on the computer, log on to the internet, write documents etc.
The most recent post about this XKB configuration issue on here seems to be from 2011, so I'm not sure if it would be 'safe' to try that, seeing as things will have changed so much since then.
There's an additional problem: I have never been much of a techie, and I've never had much confidence when it comes to fixing computer problems, but a few months ago I suffered two major bereavements within a matter of weeks and (pathetic though it sounds) my brain hasn't really started working properly again yet. If I was beyond useless with computers before, I'm well beyond beyond useless now! As a result, anyone who would be up for helping me would have to be OK about explaining things in the sort of techie equivalent of words of one syllable, because anything I had managed to grasp about Linux before seems to have drifted right out of my head, and anything new just doesn't register. But if anyone is up for trying to help me out, please, I'd be ever so grateful.
Thanks for reading,
Clueless.
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Does anyone have any ideas, please, why I get a message telling me the above "Error activating XKB configuration" and the box I hope you can see attached to this post after I sign in to Linux please? Getting rid of the box is easy enough - I just close it - but after it's appeared I don't seem able to download things like podcasts. Maybe that's co-incidence, but the downloading-podcasts-problem only happened after the box started appearing. I'm not sure about libre office and editing pictures, but certainly internet windows seems to be less reactive than they used to be, as well. For example, opening a story on a newspaper website seems to take longer than it used to.
I have Mint 21.2 Cinnamon, 64-bit on a pretty old, but reconditioned, Samsung RV510 laptop. I've been using Linux for maybe a year or so, but I class myself as a newbie as I don't really understand Linux and I've never tried to do anything clever - I just switch on the computer, log on to the internet, write documents etc.
The most recent post about this XKB configuration issue on here seems to be from 2011, so I'm not sure if it would be 'safe' to try that, seeing as things will have changed so much since then.
There's an additional problem: I have never been much of a techie, and I've never had much confidence when it comes to fixing computer problems, but a few months ago I suffered two major bereavements within a matter of weeks and (pathetic though it sounds) my brain hasn't really started working properly again yet. If I was beyond useless with computers before, I'm well beyond beyond useless now! As a result, anyone who would be up for helping me would have to be OK about explaining things in the sort of techie equivalent of words of one syllable, because anything I had managed to grasp about Linux before seems to have drifted right out of my head, and anything new just doesn't register. But if anyone is up for trying to help me out, please, I'd be ever so grateful.
Thanks for reading,
Clueless.
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