On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:16:56AM EST, roberto wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr. >> > >> > Try: >> > >> > $ xmodmap - >> > keycode 113 = Alt_R >> > Ctrl+Dน >> > actually it worked again after restarting the kdm manager
thank you very much for your replies >> > And check whether your Alt key is working again. >> > >> > CJ >> > >> > น Followed by a dash, xmodmap reads your commands form stdin. After >> > ?remapping your Alt key, you need to hit the Control and the D keys >> > ?simulataneously to tell xmodmap that you're done. >> >> i can say that it started to work again, but i say also that its >> behavior its strange: >> Alt_L: i can switch between applications, by Alt_L + Tab >> Alt_R + Tab: i cannot > > To undo the change and get back to where you were: > > $ xmodmap - > keycode 113 = ISO_Level3_Shift > Ctrl-D > > OK. I see from another post that you are running KDE? > > I don't have a KDE system anywhere, but I vaguely remember something > about a "control center", was it.. where you could do some keyboard > remapping in a GUI. > > Is there anything in there where you can tell KDE that you want the > right Alt key to do something different? > > Do you normally use the "plain US" keyboard layout..? Is there a place > in the KDE GUI where you can add keyboard layouts and make one the > default? If so what is the current default? Any mention of something > like Alternate US International or such..? > > Do you have gnome or maybe XFCE installed? If so, when on the login > screen, you should have a pull-down menu that lets you switch to another > desktop - you could check whether this Alt-R behavior only happens in > KDE. If you don't have any other desktop installed, you could apt-get > XFCE and see if the Alt key works as you expect. > > Since you stated that it happened without your wittingly doing anything > that might affect the keyboard, and barring the unlikely but more > sinister possibility that someone else did - IOW, that you have been > rooted¹ - I can only think that something that you recently installed > must have tried to do you a favor without letting you know. > > Since I very much doubt debian, especially stable, would do anything > like that, I was wondering if maybe you could have installed software > from anywhere outside official debian repositories, either via > apt/aptitude pointing elsewhere via /etc/apt/sources.list, or a .deb you > downloaded, a tarball, CVS, git, mercurial trees, or closed source stuff > that comes with a Windows-styled 'installer'..? > > What I'm saying is that stuff like that does not just happen, especially > since I think you stated that you run stable, aka 5.0. > > What is the output of this command? > > $ locale > > And that one: > > $ setxkbmap -v 10 -print > >> Alt_L: i can access menus of applications >> Alt_R: i can ! >> >> Alt_L: i can access the i-th tab of firefox by Alt_L + i >> Alt_R: i cannot > > That's a cool trick.. unfortunately I mostly use Seamonkey and it > appears to be only supported by FF. > >> the actual output (after the above modifications) of xmodmap is: >> ~$ xmodmap >> xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): >> >> shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) >> lock Caps_Lock (0x42) >> control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) >> mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0x9c) >> mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) >> mod3 >> mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80) >> mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), Alt_R (0x71), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c) > > You want: > > $ xmodmap -pk | less > .. > 113 0xffea (Alt_R) > .. > > Says that my 113 is known by X as Alt_R, which I think is what you want. > >> thanks again > > Not recommending the keycode thing as a solution. You really need to > figure out what happened and caused the Alt key to start misbehaving, > and undo those changes, or understand them and then decide how you > should correct them. I have never even seen a PC keyboard with an AltGr > key, so it's difficult for me to guess, but this article might refresh > your memories and provide clues as to how this right Alt key apparently > turned into an AltGr: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key > > Unfortunately, I don't know enough about these issues to do much more > than ask questions that might push you in the right direction. > > CJ > > > ¹ Probably irrelevant, but a useful read anyway: > > http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/win-UNIX-system_compromise.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
