On Saturday 16 January 2016 13.44:38 deloptes wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
What I don't know is what is causing the problem. The rest of the keyboard layout continues to work, only Alt Gr is gone. So far only loging out and in cures the problem.
This is strange as I never had a problem with the keyboard. I have DE,US,BG,RU at home and DE,CH,US,BG in the office.
I use jessie with TDE 14.0.2
What debian version do you have and what TDE?
Same as you do.
Perhaps you should check the settings - example disable external xkb or alike.
I've got "Enable keyboard layouts" checked, with Swiss and US keyboards selected. I've noted I had left the default "104-key", I've changed to 105 - could that make a change?
AFAIK I have no other xkb option set.
German - nodeadkeys ... for CH I don't know which variant is setup ATM.
I use the deadkeys, so my variant is simply fr
If its not a setting, it could software defect for the keyboard model (did you try with another one) or even a hardware defect.
I can rule this out, I've used several keyboards - mostly Lenovo keyboards , the one I'm typing on is brand new Unicomp.
There is on thing however: there is a USB switch between the keyboard and the computer. I'd have to test if this happens on the other computers connected, but I seldom have to use these keys on them because they have special uses (video, backup).
regards
Thanks for helping :)
Thierry