Bug#1007015: onboard: Alt Gr "sometimes" does not work, with possible workaround

[Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>]

Package: onboard
Version: 1.4.1-5+b3
Severity: normal

Dear maintainers,

I faced a strange issue with OnBoard, already reported upstream 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/736269): sometimes, the AltGr 
button does not work.

What it exactly means:
- when clicking on AltGr, symbols on keys do not change
- left Alt key becomes grey one second after first click on AltGr

Also, a "side bug" maybe, sometimes the OnBoard keyboard layout 
automatically changes to Qwerty… (I could not find another report of 
this issue). Restarting OnBoard was enough to get the proper layout back.

I installed OnBoard two days ago. I faced these issues yesterday and the 
day before (I rebooted between these two attempts), running Bullseye 
with Cinnamon, and could not find a way to solve this. Today, I rebooted 
again, added a new keyboard layout, started OnBoard, and AltGr works 
properly! Obviously, I immediately removed the new keyboard layout, 
restarted OnBoard, but the issue has definitely gone, strange.

For information, the original keyboard layout was pc105, fr, latin9 as 
reported by `setxkbmap -query`.

I realize that this bug report will not help a lot to fix the issue, but 
at least someone could benefit of the same workaround.

Regards,
Yvan

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