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



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?

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