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Bug#851189: keyboard-configuration: ALT+Cursor-Left switches consoles instead of working on app in focus



This started happening to me recently, not sure what change could be to blame but I found a lengthy thread on the ubuntu bug tracker that seems to confirm things. Copying the relevant post: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1508146/comments/66

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In my case, I traced the issue to the keyboard-configuration package postinst script, which ends up calling 'setupcon --force --save' which in turn calls 'kbd_mode -u'

To reproduce:
sudo apt install --reinstall keyboard-configuration

setupcon documentation states:
"--force Do not check whether we are on the console. Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot your computer if you run setupcon with this option and the screen is controlled by a X server."

It looks like the checks to avoid this behavior while a graphic environment is active don't work in the context of the installer.

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In any case they've found 'sudo kbd_mode -s' to be a workaround.

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