Bug#395284: AltGr key does not work in gtk/directfb frontend

[Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>]

Frans Pop wrote:

> reassign 395284 cdebconf-gtk-udeb
> retitle 395284 AltGr key does not work in gtk/directfb frontend
> thanks
> 
> On Friday 27 October 2006 00:10, Holger Wansing wrote:
>> > With the gui installer, in the dialog for the proxy server
>> > it was unpossible to type in the @ character. I have worked around
>> > this by copy and past it from the example
>> > (http://user:password@host:port).
>> > The keymap "Swiss German" worked, umlauts ä, ü, ö could be typed
>> > correctly.
>>
>> And I can confirm this; with keymap "Swiss German" typing an @
>> gives an q (so the AltGr key doesn't work?).
>> In de_DE for example it works.
> 
> This is a known issue we only discovered recently ourselves: the AltGr key
> indeed does not work in the graphical installer. I can only suggest to
> use the regular text based frontend to work around this problem.
> 
> What is the key combination needed to type a "@" on a Swiss/German
> keyboard?
AltGr-2 on Swiss/German keyboard (PC-Style). Mac used Apple-G.

Best regards

Niklaus Giger