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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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