Bug#1117976: console-setup: Keyboard level 4 remains locked if AltGr and Shift are released in incorrect order
Samuel Thibault, le mar. 14 oct. 2025 23:18:28 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le mar. 14 oct. 2025 22:59:31 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Rimas Kudelis, le lun. 13 oct. 2025 09:41:08 +0300, a ecrit:
> > XKBOPTIONS="grp:lalt_lshift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
> >
> > (two additional 'l' to enable only alt-shift and not altgr-shift)
> >
> > I'll commit something to make keyboard-configuration automatically set
> > this.
>
> Looking more into it, it's really not easy. We cannot easily know
> whether the layout will include level3(ralt_switch), and so if ralt will
> be allocated to something.
>
> The base problem is that we have a default configuration that leads to
> a conflicting request: ralt+rshift to toggle group, and ralt to switch
> level3.
>
> I'm thinking that the default configuration should only enable
> lalt+lshift for toggling group,
I have pushed it to master, for people to try out before we upload.
Samuel
> so that ralt+rshift can either remain
> the default Meta_R or level3 switch, depending on the layout, without
> conflicting with group toggle. That way, only people explictly
> requesting alt+shift (i.e. both lalt+lshift) will risk getting the
> conflict if they don't realize that it conflicts with they level3
> switch.
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