Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix
Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
This configurations are done installing/updateing xorg-conf and console. I
think (as far as I remember) you define the behavior when setting up the
keyboard (by choosing language and model) and still (I'm using kde) it
behaves normally - are you running kde3 or kde4?
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> None of which I changed.
but updating daily - so the update is the cause and not you ;-)
>
>>
>> Have you had any updates recently, check! Ubuntu != Debian why are you
>> citing this?
>
> I am well aware that Ubuntu is not Debian - I cited it because it was
> about the only thing that Googling turned up on the problem. And, as
> it turns out, the solution was related! Did you notice that?
yes noticed - it's normal - :-) ubuntu's alpha debian testers (my opinion)
and we make the profit - but it's not always true.
>
> I posted in the hopes my information might be of help to people who
> experienced the same issue that I did, oh, I don't know, to maybe save
> them some time tracking it down? I'm sorry it caused you a snit.
>
> Patrick
No, no problem at all - just didn't get the motivation why you are exactly
writing it.
However for most of the people right ALT is very useful and also I don't
undrstand how you are able to press right ALT and the arrowkeys at the same
time (without finger acrobatics) - are you on a notebook?
regards
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