Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Patrick Wiseman wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two
> days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly.  Eg, in
> Iceweasel, Alt-left should go to the previous page.  With the right
> Alt key, nothing happened; with the left Alt key, it behaved as
> expected.  Googling revealed that, in Ubuntu, the right alt key
> "chooses 3rd level", but that did not seem to be so here when I
> checked System/Preferences/Keyboard.  But selecting the option "Right
> Alt key never chooses 3rd level" under the "Key to choose 3rd level"
> option appears to have corrected the problem.
> 
> I never had this problem before; is Debian making some eurocentric
> presumptions (use of 3rd level on the keyboard) in its defaults?  I
> have no objection to that, except that when I select a US keyboard I
> would not expect those presumptions to operate!
> 
> Patrick

right alt has special meaning on some keyboards and it depends on your
Xserver, desktop or console.

Have you had any updates recently, check! Ubuntu != Debian why are you
citing this?

regards