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Hello,
I am using Matlab R2014a Student Version under Arch Linux x86_64, installed with this AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/matlab
Matlab starts and everything that I tested worked fine, except the AltGr key.
There is a nice feature in Matlab, that displays some shortcut keys when you press the Alt-button so you can enter shortcuts sequentially.
On my machine, AltGr has nearly the same behaviour which is rather bad, since on a german keyboard I need the AltGr+8 and AltGr+9 combinations for the []-brackets. Instead of simply inserting the brackets in the code, Matlab also enters this shortcut display which captures the next typed key. This is really annoying.
Has anyone here an idea on how to diagnose this? I have been on Matlab Answers with this issue but no one could help me and I would like to get to know if the issue is my fault (configuration, etc.) or if it comes from Matlab before I open a bug report.
Are there any Arch Linux users out there who also use Matlab R2014a? Maybe the problem is also in R2013a/b, as these also use the new user interface.
/etc/locale.conf:
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C/etc/locale.gen:
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 KDE is also configured to use the german keyboard layout.
Last edited by And1G (2014-08-08 17:03:15)
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Should Matlab not provide you with the possibility to change what it sees as keyboard layout and changing the shortcuts proves to be a dead end also, the simplest workaround should be to simply set you keyboard layout to english or (any?) programmer layout. Umlauts will be gone, but coding should be more efficient. Might be of interest to you:
man setxkbmapOffline
The Problem seems to be solved. I did not change any configuration, only did the recent system updates. Alt and AltGr now behave how they should. I have no Idea what was wrong but now it works. Thanks for your effort.
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