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I seem to have this weird issue where I can't type tildes anywhere while in gnome.
I installed screenkey to make sure the tilde key presses were getting through and they are. It's just they never make it into a terminal or a text editor or whatever. If i switch to a tty it works fine, also copying and pasting from somewhere else works fine. When I press it in a terminal the cursor blinks but nothing gets entered. Keyboard layout appears to still be a standard us.
Any ideas?
Last edited by UncleSlug (2017-10-03 07:04:28)
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Gnome on X11 or on wayland? In the latter case: which keyboard driver (basically evdev or libinput)?
Any input tools ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ds_in_Xorg )?
Do all other keys work as expected?
And be sure about the used locale settign (iirc gnome overrides it with the stuff in its own settings) - the tilde can be a dead key (to write "ñ" etc)
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Sorry about being super slow I've been busy and this kept slipping my mind :(
Gnome is running on X11 inside of virtualbox.
I seem to be using libinput:
# libinput list-devices
Device: Power Button
Kernel: /dev/input/event4
Group: 1
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Sleep Button
Kernel: /dev/input/event5
Group: 2
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Video Bus
Kernel: /dev/input/event3
Group: 3
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: VirtualBox mouse integration
Kernel: /dev/input/event2
Group: 4
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: identity matrix
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: VirtualBox USB Tablet
Kernel: /dev/input/event1
Group: 5
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration: identity matrix
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Kernel: /dev/input/event0
Group: 6
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse
Kernel: /dev/input/event7
Group: 7
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: button
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a
Seems to happen for both LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8.
In Gnome I have language set to English (New Zealand), Formats New Zealand, input sources English (US).
Only input tool I could find was libibus which seems to be part of Gnome.
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please provide your xorg log, the output of "setxkbmap -print -query" and check the gnome keyboard settings for dead keys.
Also ensure it is not bound as shortcut to some action (quake-like terminal)
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I think I may have found the culprit. I have the drop down terminal gnome extension and it's default key is a backtick (the same key as tilde). Changing it to F12 magically lets tildes work. Seems kinda strange since it used to work fine.
Looks like I have this issue: https://github.com/zzrough/gs-extension … issues/190
I'll just have to choose between using the numpad and being able to use the backtick key for my terminal. Thanks for the help .
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