Bug#757688: keyboard-configuration: Strange AltGr key
Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.102
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
I am talking about keyboard in Gnome Shell configured for
English (US) and Russian (typewriter), on an ordinary x86 PC
with a regular keyboard.
By AltGr I mean the right Alt key.
When the keyboard is in English mode, AltGr has no effect.
When the keyboard is in Russian mode, holding AltGr temporarily
switches to English mode. (By the way when the keyboard is in Russian mode,
pressing AltGr makes an unpleasant beep, what I reported in an other bug
report.)
Make it symmetric: in Russian holding AltGr should temporarily switch to
English and in English to Russian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.53
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-53.2
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-8
keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.
keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.102
ii debconf 1.5.53
ii xkb-data 2.12-1
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.19-7
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.5-1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
ii console-setup 1.102
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
ii console-common 0.7.88
ii console-data 2:1.12-5
pn console-tools <none>
ii kbd 1.15.5-1
-- debconf information:
console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: Alt+Shift
console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/fontface: Fixed
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us,ru
console-setup/layout:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
keyboard-configuration/layout:
console-setup/unsupported_options: true
keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/compose: No compose key
keyboard-configuration/other:
console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/variant: Russia
console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
console-setup/guess_font:
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/layoutcode: us,ru
console-setup/variantcode: ,
console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: ru
keyboard-configuration/variantcode: ,
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/optionscode: grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll
console-setup/other:
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
console-setup/modelcode: pc105
keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
keyboard-configuration/variant: Russian
* console-setup/toggle: Alt+Shift
console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
console-setup/optionscode: grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
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