Re: slash (/) key dead, regardless of keyboard layout, missing XmbLookupString line on xev
Here is the output from xev if this helps anyone have any ideas
I don't beleive I had any keyboard shortcuts installed on that slash key
either, but I noticed I'm missing the right parenth. also so I'm taking a look
now for possible conflicts
I also corrected that, now the slash is working on the German layout. Here's
xev and my original question is below
Thanks for any help!
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me@mydomain:~$ xev
...
# Here I press what should be the [back]slash key
FocusOut event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
FocusIn event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10281892, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x2000, keycode 61 (keysym 0x2f, slash), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 16
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2f) "/"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10283430, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x2000, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
" XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10283554, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x2000, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
" XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
XFilterEvent returns: False
#Now, as a reference, I press the [Enter] Key
FocusOut event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
FocusIn event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 2 0 0 0 32 32 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10289954, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0xc, keycode 45 (keysym 0x6b, k), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0b) "
"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10290057, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0xc, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10290066, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10291398, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x0, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
# Here I press the same key on the German layout (it should be a minus sign?
FocusOut event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
FocusIn event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 2 0 0 0 32 32 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10296145, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x200c, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
#Here I press the [shift]+7 which should be a slash on the German keyboard
FocusOut event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor
FocusIn event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor
KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10298031, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x2000, keycode 61 (keysym 0x2f, slash), same_screen YES,
XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 16
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2f) "/"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10298460, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x2000, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
" XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x5200001,
root 0xb7, subw 0x0, time 10298563, (1162,15), root:(1164,38),
state 0x2000, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
" XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
XFilterEvent returns: False
ClientMessage event, serial 41, synthetic YES, window 0x5200001,
message_type 0x113 (WM_PROTOCOLS), format 32, message 0x114
(WM_DELETE_WINDOW)
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[Question from earlier this week]
> I was working in the console on tty1,
> I might have not even been root, so let's assume a user could also cause
> this problem
>
> I was trying to simply type ~"cd /" to auickly access the root folder,
> and I either mis-keyed and executed " cd {something else}" perhaps
> including a space, period (.), minus (-) or (_) ampersand (&) or any other
> random typo.
>
> ...result of {whatever i typed} was a successful command; I landed at a new
> ~ prompt... and from them on the / key was completey unmapped in the tty
> and also in X11 (kde of course!)
>
> What is really crazy is that I use German and US-alt/intl. layouts, and it
> now gives no ouput in either one. (The slash is in completely different
> places in each layout).
>
> I pressed the up-arrow to see what I had done, and it said " cd &", I
> think--It's my mistake that I should have made a better note at that
> point.
>
> When I do ~xev,
> the slash key outputs to xev, like it should, but it is missing the line
> "...XmbLookupString ..."
> so in other words, output=1 on the other two responses, but then the
> XmbLookupString line is completely missing.
>
> Also Nothing strange is in '/etc/default/keyboard' as far as I know
>
> I'd appreciate any help:
>
> Thanks jb
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