Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:16:56AM EST, roberto wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr.
>> >
>> > Try:
>> >
>> > $ xmodmap -
>> > keycode 113 = Alt_R
>> > Ctrl+Dน
>> >
actually it worked again after restarting the kdm manager
thank you very much for your replies
>> > And check whether your Alt key is working again.
>> >
>> > CJ
>> >
>> > น Followed by a dash, xmodmap reads your commands form stdin. After
>> > ?remapping your Alt key, you need to hit the Control and the D keys
>> > ?simulataneously to tell xmodmap that you're done.
>>
>> i can say that it started to work again, but i say also that its
>> behavior its strange:
>> Alt_L: i can switch between applications, by Alt_L + Tab
>> Alt_R + Tab: i cannot
>
> To undo the change and get back to where you were:
>
> $ xmodmap -
> keycode 113 = ISO_Level3_Shift
> Ctrl-D
>
> OK. I see from another post that you are running KDE?
>
> I don't have a KDE system anywhere, but I vaguely remember something
> about a "control center", was it.. where you could do some keyboard
> remapping in a GUI.
>
> Is there anything in there where you can tell KDE that you want the
> right Alt key to do something different?
>
> Do you normally use the "plain US" keyboard layout..? Is there a place
> in the KDE GUI where you can add keyboard layouts and make one the
> default? If so what is the current default? Any mention of something
> like Alternate US International or such..?
>
> Do you have gnome or maybe XFCE installed? If so, when on the login
> screen, you should have a pull-down menu that lets you switch to another
> desktop - you could check whether this Alt-R behavior only happens in
> KDE. If you don't have any other desktop installed, you could apt-get
> XFCE and see if the Alt key works as you expect.
>
> Since you stated that it happened without your wittingly doing anything
> that might affect the keyboard, and barring the unlikely but more
> sinister possibility that someone else did - IOW, that you have been
> rooted¹ - I can only think that something that you recently installed
> must have tried to do you a favor without letting you know.
>
> Since I very much doubt debian, especially stable, would do anything
> like that, I was wondering if maybe you could have installed software
> from anywhere outside official debian repositories, either via
> apt/aptitude pointing elsewhere via /etc/apt/sources.list, or a .deb you
> downloaded, a tarball, CVS, git, mercurial trees, or closed source stuff
> that comes with a Windows-styled 'installer'..?
>
> What I'm saying is that stuff like that does not just happen, especially
> since I think you stated that you run stable, aka 5.0.
>
> What is the output of this command?
>
> $ locale
>
> And that one:
>
> $ setxkbmap -v 10 -print
>
>> Alt_L: i can access menus of applications
>> Alt_R: i can !
>>
>> Alt_L: i can access the i-th tab of firefox by Alt_L + i
>> Alt_R: i cannot
>
> That's a cool trick.. unfortunately I mostly use Seamonkey and it
> appears to be only supported by FF.
>
>> the actual output (after the above modifications) of xmodmap is:
>> ~$ xmodmap
>> xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
>>
>> shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
>> lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
>> control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
>> mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0x9c)
>> mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
>> mod3
>> mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80)
>> mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), Alt_R (0x71), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
>
> You want:
>
> $ xmodmap -pk | less
> ..
> 113 0xffea (Alt_R)
> ..
>
> Says that my 113 is known by X as Alt_R, which I think is what you want.
>
>> thanks again
>
> Not recommending the keycode thing as a solution. You really need to
> figure out what happened and caused the Alt key to start misbehaving,
> and undo those changes, or understand them and then decide how you
> should correct them. I have never even seen a PC keyboard with an AltGr
> key, so it's difficult for me to guess, but this article might refresh
> your memories and provide clues as to how this right Alt key apparently
> turned into an AltGr:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know enough about these issues to do much more
> than ask questions that might push you in the right direction.
>
> CJ
>
>
> ¹ Probably irrelevant, but a useful read anyway:
>
> http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/win-UNIX-system_compromise.html
>
>
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roberto
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