On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:08:51 -0600 Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Howdy y'all > > I've been using CrunchBang 10 (so squeeze with some branding) and I've > run into a subtle problem. > > I'm running on a (really old) Dell Latitude C600. Aside from the > occasional issue with the video (Which is because, despite the fact that > there's 8MB of video ram, 16MB is reported), the only problem I've had > as of late is the Latitude keyboard layout apparently is intended as an > international layout? > > I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I > get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript > 3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. > > I have my /etc/defaults set to: > XKBLAYOUT="latitude" > XKBVARIANT="us" I don't know the solution, but I know a workaround : if I remember correctly, I had this issue on a BSD system and Escape + <number> worked ok. YMMV. -- Rares Aioanei <debian.dev.list> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100907095402.b2f3be85.debian.dev.l...@localhost.localdomain