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

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Niklaus Giger wrote:
> 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

I did some tests with a regular GTK i386 miniiso and this is what i got

- With de-latin1 keymap the @ symbol is obtained with AltGr-q
- With sg-latin1 keymap the @ symbol is obtained with AltGr-2

isn't this what one should expect?

I also experienced that to get a "@" with sg-latin1 keymap using AltGr-q
you ned to add

altgr keycode 16 = at

to the corresponding keymap file.

cheers

Attilio